Roberto Benigni Quotes

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• It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

  Roberto Benigni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thank You

  "Talking Shop At Oscar Time". Interview with Kenneth L. Woodward, www.newsweek.com. July 2, 1999.

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• To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Laughing, World

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• The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

  Roberto Benigni

  Believe, Fiction, Truth Is

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• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

  Roberto Benigni

  Laughing, Trying, Cinema

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• 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 river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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• Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

  Roberto Benigni

  Healthy, Needs, Stuff

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• 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 men. - Eliseo Orefice

  Roberto Benigni

  Art, Men, Life Is Beautiful

  "Life Is Beautiful". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

  Roberto Benigni

  Parent, Village, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

  Roberto Benigni

  Being Yourself, Important, Oscars

  "A nose for trouble" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2003.

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• I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Making Love, Jupiter

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• I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

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  Inspirational, Parent, Poverty

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• When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Theatre, Saws

  "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

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  Moving, Writing, Listening

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• 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 accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedian, Actors, Proud

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• 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 or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

  Roberto Benigni

  Important, Lions, Circus

  "The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal". Book by Ludwig B. Chincarini, 2012.

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• My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mother, Father, Cinema

  "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, November 7, 1998.

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• I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!

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  Thinking, People, Idiot

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• 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 the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.

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  Mother, Years, Scary

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• 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. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Italian, Imagination, Shining

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

  Roberto Benigni

  Trying, Sometimes, Has Beens

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• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

  Roberto Benigni

  Corn, Fields, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 it was full of gladness and good humanity.

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  Fathers Day, Mother, Grateful

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• 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 to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Country, Holocaust, Humanity

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• It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

  Roberto Benigni

  Years, Four, Habit

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedy, Sophisticated, Divine

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