Quotes by Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

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.

Imagination

Italian

Shining

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.

Listening

Moving

Writing

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don’t need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante’s writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

Christian

Real

Writing

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

Dream

Shooting

Way

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

Dies

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

Cartoon

Donald Duck

Ducks

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.

Beautiful

Film

Life Is

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

Idiot

People

Thinking

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.

Circus

Important

Lions

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Father

Fathers Day

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Fields

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Firsts

Four

Games

Genius

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Habit

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Quotes by Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni

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.

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.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

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.

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

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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