Roberto Benigni Quotes - Page 2

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• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mistake, Oscars, Used

  Roberto Benigni's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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• What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

  Roberto Benigni

  Boys, Simple, Games

  "Roberto Benigni defends 'Life' as 'real love story'". www.cnn.com. November 09, 1998.

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

  Roberto Benigni

  Lying, Acting, Principles

  "Does this man really think the Holocaust was a big joke?" by Roberto Benigni, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 1999.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Life Is, Film

  "A nose for trouble" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2003.

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• For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

  Roberto Benigni

  Dies

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• 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

  Dream, Shooting, Way

  Interviewed with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

  Roberto Benigni

  Christian, Real, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Roberto Benigni

  Ducks, Cartoon, Donald Duck

  "Does this man really think the Holocaust was a big joke?". www.theguardian.com. January 29, 1999.

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• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

  Roberto Benigni

  Saws, Firsts, Ben Hur

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

  Roberto Benigni

  Genius, Century, Stanley

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fellini belongs to nature.

  Roberto Benigni

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