Roberto Benigni — Italian Actor born on 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 has collaborated with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in three of his films: Down by Law, Night on Earth and Coffee and Cigarettes... (wikipedia)

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
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.
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
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.
'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.