When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?' — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions.… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share
