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Famous Roberto Benigni Quotes
“I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.”
“It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.”
“What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'”
“For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.”
“My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.”
“This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.”
“I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.”
“It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.”
“To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.”
“Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.”
“My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.”
“The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.”
“The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.”