Roberto Benigni Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von 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.

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

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

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

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

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 Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

Roberto Benigni

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

Fellini belongs to nature.

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

Roberto Benigni

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

Roberto Benigni

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Roberto Benigni

It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Roberto Benigni

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

Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Roberto Benigni