Quotes of Roberto Benigni - somelinesforyou

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ It is a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ I am overjoyed and extremely grateful to receive this extraordinary honor. These awards fill my heart with happiness, knowing that people throughout Europe have been touched by our film. ”

- Roberto Benigni

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ To cut dreams is difficult, but they have managed to do it. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ Fellini belongs to nature. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

“ There is nothing has brought them to the world like cinema has,... I'm grateful to the United States for the art of cinema. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie — a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ I am overjoyed and extremely grateful to receive this extraordinary honor. These awards fill my heart with happiness, knowing that people throughout Europe have been touched by our film. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ I would like to tell that I was really loved, with the simplicity,... What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'. ”

- Roberto Benigni

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ Fellini belongs to nature. ”

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ We live with this horror and are surrounded by this horror. ”

- Roberto Benigni

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni

“ 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

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

- Roberto Benigni
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