Roberto Benigni Quotes

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

Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody, the makers of the joy. - Roberto Benigni

Now they've cut our dreams. - 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

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

Kubrick is like someone like Fellini, like Kafka, like someone who really dreamt for us and gave to us the key to understand something and the pleasure to tell the story. - Roberto Benigni

It's a real love story in an extreme situation... I was afraid of only one thing. I was afraid to offend the memory of survivors on Jewish people, which I respect so much. - 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

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