64 Quotes by Roberto Benigni

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. 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.

'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

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.

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.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

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

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

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.