Roberto Benigni Quotes

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• It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn…
• Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
• I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion…
• My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because…
• There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a…
• To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world
• What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'
• For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
• My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me -…
• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.
• In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs…
• I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
• I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
• Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and…
• It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.
• To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
• The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
• You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to…

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