Italian - Actor | October 27, 1952 -
'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
Roberto Benigni
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When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.
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When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.
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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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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.
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To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
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I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
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It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.
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'The Tiger And The Snow' is a beautiful movie. I am in love with this idea.
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