Quote by Roberto Benigni Download Open image “For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.” — Roberto Benigni ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen. — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Wow,” I said. And I meant it. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were… — Stephanie Danler 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 Image
'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?' — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
