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Top 25 Roberto Benigni Quotes (2025 Update)

Roberto Benigni Quote: “I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty.”

1. “I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.”

2. “I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “You’re serving. You’re not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he’s not a servant to men. – Eliseo Orefice.”

3. “You’re serving. You’re not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he’s not a servant to men. – Eliseo Orefice.”

— Roberto Benigni

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

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

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

5. “To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Roberto Benigni Quote: “It’s me, it’s my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it’s my habit.”

7. “It’s me, it’s my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it’s my habit.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.”

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

— Roberto Benigni

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

9. “My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.”

10. “This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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!”

11. “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

Roberto Benigni Quote: “For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.”

12. “For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.”

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

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, ‘This is not the truth, it is a game?’”

14. “What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, ‘This is not the truth, it is a game?’”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.”

15. “My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty – if we don’t understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it’s like hearing music.”

16. “Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty – if we don’t understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it’s like hearing music.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn’t allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown – very much.”

20. “Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn’t allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown – very much.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Roberto Benigni Quote: “I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.”

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

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.”

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

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.”

24. “The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it’s impossible to make something so beautiful!”

25. “When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it’s impossible to make something so beautiful!”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “Fellini belongs to nature.”

26. “Fellini belongs to nature.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni Quote: “I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!”

28. “I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!”

— Roberto Benigni

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