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Roberto Benigni
Italian
Actor
Born:
Oct 27
,
1952
Beautiful
Life
Me
Mother
Try
You
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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.
Roberto Benigni
Good
Grateful
Humanity
Mother
Father
Gladness
Because
Am
Very
Childhood
Full
Farmer
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
Sometimes
Healthy
About
Poetry
Stuff
Talk
Very
Things
Incomprehensible
Need
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
Life
Beautiful
Money
Made
Life Is Beautiful
Spent
More
Small
Risky
Could
Had
Instead
Pinocchio
Very
Than
Film
Kept
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
Beautiful
Best
Cleaning
Words
Communicate
Try
Be Nice
Somebody
Giving
Nice
Side
Our
Way
Inventing
More
Poets
Know
Talk
Polite
Doing
Want
Us
Sentiments
Use
Show
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
Lion
Learning
Remember
Thought
Important
Clown
Circus
High
Magician
Prince
Most
Always
The Most Important
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
Day
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Important
To Be Honest
True
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Continue
Get
The Most Important
After
Your
Thing
Oscars
Honest
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
Roberto Benigni
Me
Everybody
Strip
Cartoon
Like
Knows
Am
Duck
Italy
Donald
Donald Duck
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
History
Humanity
World
Country
Everybody
Relation
Born
Point
Part
Particular
Italy
Where
Holocaust
Turning
Turning Point
Fascism
Belongs
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni
You
Cinema
Try
Beauty
Duty
Laugh
Emotion
Reach
Cry
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.
Roberto Benigni
Life
Dreams
Me
My Life
Changed
Way
Dream
Favourites
Both
True
Fellini
Were
Shooting
Movies
Them
Fellini belongs to nature.
Roberto Benigni
Nature
Fellini
Belongs
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
Beautiful
Myself
Theatre
Impossible
Thought
Lawyer
First
Become
Saw
Out
Something
Fellini
Make
Came
Movie
Decided
My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.
Roberto Benigni
Time
Cinema
Mother
Father
Made
First
First Time
Movie
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
Death
God
Myself
Clown
About
Only
Mary
Allow
Comedians
Talk
Accent
Because
Proud
Am
Tragic
Yes
Very
Person
Much
Actor
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
Roberto Benigni
Me
Gift
Parents
Poverty
Gave
Would
Like
Italy
Thank
Biggest
Little
Village
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.
Roberto Benigni
Geniuses
Kubrick
Century
Stanley
Stanley Kubrick
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
Roberto Benigni
People
Think
Know
Idiots
Very
American
Sensitive
Them
Playful
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.
Roberto Benigni
Beautiful
Music
Saying
Myself
Phone
Reading
Dante
Like
Him
Calling
Felt
Boy
Sound
Friend
Bravo
Little
Meaning
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.
Roberto Benigni
Music
Great
Writing
Listening
Poet
Beauty
Single
Every
Everybody
Dante
Stay
Like
Understand
Always
Sound
Hearing
Verse
Very
Just
Moving
Creators
Universal
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
Roberto Benigni
You
Comedy
Matter
Beauty
Poetry
Reach
Crux
Tragedy
Same
Storyteller
'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.
Roberto Benigni
Love
Beautiful
Idea
Tiger
Am
Snow
Movie
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