Quotes by Dario Fo - Page 1

Blush at your faults.
Dario Fo / Actor
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Laughter does not please the mighty.
Dario Fo / Actor
Laughter
Please
Mighty
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Health and an able body are two jewels.
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Body
Jewels
Two
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With comedy I can search for the profound.
Dario Fo / Actor
Comedy
I Can
Profound
Search
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Know how to live the time that is given you.
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Time
Given
Know How
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At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
Dario Fo / Actor
Tragedy
Root
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We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
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I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.
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Idiot
Literature
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Won
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Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
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Democracy
Scandal
Western
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While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
Dario Fo / Actor
Drawing
Discover
While
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My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.
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Battle
Stage
Theater
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
Dario Fo / Actor
Affair
Comedy
Subversion
Affairs
Existing
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And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
Dario Fo / Actor
Bed
Fall
October
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Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.
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After Death
Drinking
Use
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Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
Dario Fo / Actor
Doctors
Fees
Patient
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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Seek
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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
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Add
Artistic
Artistic Expression
Expression
Adds
Every
Either
Influenced
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It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
Dario Fo / Actor
Fossils
Nobel
Rage
Explode
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Dario Fo / Actor
Enjoy
Humour
Satire
Incorporate
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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
Dario Fo / Actor
Dead People
Satire
Love Always People
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
Dario Fo / Actor
Art
Boys
Ironic
Boy
Spontaneously
Telling
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Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
Dario Fo / Actor
War
Games
Justification
Nevertheless
Dishonest
Mode
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A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Dario Fo / Actor
Artistic
Artistic Expression
Doe
Expression
Literature
Relevance
Speak
Theatre
Does
Own
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Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
Dario Fo / Actor
Heart
Homeland
Law
Liberty
Revolution
Whole
Hearts
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Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Dario Fo / Actor
Connotation
Culture
Ideology
Inherent
Negative
Although
Connotations
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For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Dario Fo / Actor
Speech
Use
Writing
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For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Dario Fo / Actor
Habit
Preparing
Illustrate
Images
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.
Dario Fo / Actor
Conclusion
Afraid
Courting
Fair
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Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.
Dario Fo / Actor
Grace
Knows
Twenties
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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
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Age
Men
Finished
Middle Ages
Real
Socialism
Ages
Italy
Marx
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Dario Fo / Actor
Consensus
Democratic
Exercise
Form
Target
Attacked
Forms
React
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We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.
Dario Fo / Actor
Democratic
Medieval
Now And Then
Working Together
Centuries
Italy
Returns
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We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
Dario Fo / Actor
Church
Expression
Freedom Of Expression
Italian
Resurgence
Terrible
Instead
Interfering
Signs
Withdrawn
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I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
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Driving
Extraordinary
Hands
Hero
Six
Sun
Carriage
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In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.
Dario Fo / Actor
Circumstances
Iraq
Saddam
Affairs
Current
Current State
Descended
Types
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo / Actor
Aim
Borders
Events
Involved
Limits
Social
Talk
Open
Contribute
Extremely
Instead
Personally
Remain
Vital
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Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
Dario Fo / Actor
Art
Connecting
Country
Europe
Trade
Arts
Conceived
Countries
Interests
Link
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It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
Dario Fo / Actor
Breathing
Conventional
Rhythm
Technique
Unusual
Writing
Chew
Express
Literary
Sounds
Techniques
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I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.
Dario Fo / Actor
Conceited
Leap
Shots
Wars
Laugh
Plug
Pull
Reveal
Slaughtered
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Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
Dario Fo / Actor
Authority
Born
Hypocrisy
Middle
Proletariat
Smugglers
Stories
Teachers
Lived
Side
Classes
Politicians
Fishermen
Lawyers
Sons
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