Roberto Benigni Quotes

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

Roberto Benigni

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• I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Reach

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Live
  • Reach

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
  • Ready
  • Reach

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Write
  • Hero

• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • People
  • Trust
  • Tragedy

• Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Great
  • Tragedy
  • Storytelling

• What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Child
  • Down
  • Tragedy

• One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Play
  • Used
  • Tragedy

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Insecurity
  • Hilarious

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Place
  • Internet
  • Reach

• I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Reach
  • Level

• Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Reach
  • Stretch
  • Doomsday

• The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or stroke her bright hair back from her temple--was almost overpowering. He crossed his arms over his chest. "Yep, definitely time for a coffee break," he said, closing his eyes. "You see right through me.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Time
  • She
  • Eyes

• The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Power
  • Process
  • Tragedy

• Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Tragedy
  • Discontent

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Joy
  • Pride
  • Sin

• Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Today
  • Wells
  • Microcosm

• The concept of substance is the central tenet of Spinoza’s metaphysics. All things exist and are conceived through substance, or God, or nature, which exists and is conceived only through itself. Substance represents the singular binding force that connects things, no matter how small or disconnected in space and time they might be, for every thing participates in and is a part of a complex totality.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • God
  • Force
  • Exist

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

  

  Roberto Benigni
  • Tragedy
  • Reach
  • Comedians