Roberto Benigni Quotes

• 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!

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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.

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

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

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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.

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• For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

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• Fellini belongs to nature.

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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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Roberto Benigni (9)

Birth:	27th October, 1952
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Director, Screenwriter

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Roberto Remigio Benigni is an Academy Award winning Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.

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