Roberto Benigni

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

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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.

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The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

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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.

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