Roberto Benigni Quotes

Italy, Actor
October 27, 1952

Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He co-wrote, directed and acted in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful, which garnered him the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also portrayed Inspector Clouseau's son in Son of the Pink Panther (1993) and has collaborated with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in three of his films: Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003).

Also known as Comedian, Screenwriter, Director

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

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

Roberto Benigni
- Believe
- Truth
- Fiction
For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Roberto Benigni
- Die
- Watermelon
- Fellini
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

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

Roberto Benigni
- Emotion
- Laugh
- Cry
Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Roberto Benigni
- Movies
- Try
- Wrong
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
- Important
- Prince
- Clown

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

Roberto Benigni
- Tragedy
- Reach
- Comedians
It's me, it's my habit to perform live on stage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.

Roberto Benigni
- Habit
- Stage