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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.

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

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I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

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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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My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

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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.

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

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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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Fellini belongs to nature.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Actor

Born: October 27th, 1952

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