Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Share this quote on facebook What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!

Share this quote on facebook Buongiorno, Principessa! LET ME GO WITH YOU (Good Morning, Princess!)

Share this quote on facebook (pretending to translate a German concentration camp guard's instructions to the new prisoners) The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says "Jackass" on his back. There are three ways to lose points. One, turning into a big crybaby. Two, telling us you want to see your mommy. Three, saying you're hungry and want something to eat.

Share this quote on facebook Guido: You can do anything you want in the city. If you want to yell, yell. (His friend yells) Guido: Stop it! What are you, crazy? You can’t act like you do in the country. You’ve been acting like a madman. You can’t yell!

Share this quote on facebook Guido’s friend: Shopenhauer says that with willpower, you can do anything. “I am what I want to be.” Right now, I want to sleep, so I was saying to myself, “I’m sleeping, sleeping” and I fell asleep.

Share this quote on facebook My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on that train. Did you hear me? I want to get on him.

Share this quote on facebook We got a thousand points and we won the game! Daddy and me came in first and now we won the real tank! We won! We won!

Share this quote on facebook Joshua: "No Jews or Dogs Allowed." Why do all the shops say, "No Jews Allowed"? Guido: Oh, that. "Not Allowed" signs are the latest trend! …The other day, I was in a shop with my Chinese friend and his pet kangaroo, but their sign said, "No Chinese or Kangaroos Allowed," and I said to my friend, "Well, what can I do? They don't allow kangaroos." Joshua: We let everyone in our shop, don’t we? Guido: Well, tomorrow, we'll put one up. We won't let in anything we don't like. What don't you like? Joshua: Spiders. Guido: Good. I don't like Visigoths. Tomorrow, we'll get sign: "No Spiders or Visigoths Allowed."

Share this quote on facebook Guido: I forgot to tell you.
Dora: Go ahead.
Guido: You can't imagine how much I feel like making love to you. But I'll never tell anyone, especially not you. They'd have to torture me to make me say it.
Dora: Say what?
Guido: That I want to make love to you - not just once, but over and over again! But I'll never tell you that. I'd have to be crazy to tell you. I'd even make love to you now... right here for the rest of my life.

Share this quote on facebook Guido: Mary! Send down the key! (speaking to the woman in the window)
Dora: (later) Mary! Send someone to give [him] a dry hat!
Man: (snatches hat off Guido's head, exchanges hats)

Share this quote on facebook Guido: What are your political views?
Italian Official: [speaking to his two sons] Benito, Adolf! Be good !... Sorry Guido, what did you say?

Share this quote on facebook Guido: (learning how to be a waiter) How far do I bow? I suppose I can even go 180 degrees.
Eliseo: Think of a sunflower, they bow to the sun. But if you see some that are bowed too far down, it means they're dead. You're here serving, you're not a servant. Serving is the supreme art. God is the first of servants. God serves men, but he's not a servant to men.

Share this quote on facebook Giosué: "No Jews or Dogs Allowed." Why do all the shops say, "No Jews Allowed"?
Guido: Oh, that. "Not Allowed" signs are the latest trend! The other day, I was in a shop with my Chinese friend and his pet kangaroo, but their sign said, "No Chinese or Kangaroos Allowed," and I said to my friend, "Well, what can I do? They don't allow kangaroos."
Giosué: We let everyone in our shop, don't we?
Guido: Well, tomorrow, we'll put one up. We won't let in anything we don't like. What don't you like?
Giosué: Spiders.
Guido: Good I don't like Visigoths. Tomorrow, we'll get a sign: "No Spiders or Visigoths Allowed."

Share this quote on facebook Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You've never ridden on a train, have you? They're fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!
Giosué: There aren't any seats?
Guido: Seats? On a train? It's obvious you've never ridden one before! No, everybody's packed in, standing up. Look at this line to get on! Hey, we've got tickets, save room for us!

Share this quote on facebook Giosué: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.
Guido: Dora...

Share this quote on facebook Note: these riddles are translated from the original Italian rather than taken from the official English subtitles. For this reason, though the meanings of the words are retained, the meanings of the riddles as a whole may not be.

Share this quote on facebook The bigger it is, the less you see it
(Darkness)

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Share this quote on facebook The dwarves and Snow White sit down for a bite. How fast can you guess what she serves her guests next?
(Seven Seconds!)

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Share this quote on facebook If you say my name I'm not there anymore. Who am I?
(Silence)

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Share this quote on facebook (In Italian "Qua", has dual translation, it can mean "quack" or "here" so in Italian, the answer is Jews. In Nazi opinion, Jews are fat, ugly, all yellow, cheap, and they are here, the camp); referring to cowardice, and 'quack, quack, quack' (in Italian- "coin, coin, coin") Roberto Benigni states that there is no answer to this riddle, symbolizing the pointlessness of the war.