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Roberto Benigni (Actor)

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 learning
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.
— Roberto Benigni humanity
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 life
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
— Roberto Benigni gratitude
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
— Roberto Benigni beauty
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.
— Roberto Benigni truth
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 poetry
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 war
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 self
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
— Roberto Benigni people
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
— Roberto Benigni poverty
My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.
— Roberto Benigni life
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
— Roberto Benigni truth
'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.
— Roberto Benigni love
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
— Roberto Benigni lie
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.
— Roberto Benigni money
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, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.
— Roberto Benigni time
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
— Roberto Benigni genius
For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
— Roberto Benigni water
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. 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.
— Roberto Benigni humanity
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 life
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
— Roberto Benigni art
I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
— Roberto Benigni time
Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.
— Roberto Benigni time
'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
— Roberto Benigni cat

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