Vittorio Quotes & Sayings

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings. — Vittorio Storaro

We are all made of flesh, of matter. And at the end, this matter is dissolved in light, and transformed into energy. It's the Einstein formula. Energy is nothing but matter that is moving at the speed of light, squared — Vittorio Storaro

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows. — Beeban Kidron

Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way. — Vittorio Gassman

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. — Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri

A totally healthy actor is a paradox. — Vittorio Gassman

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. — Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. — Vittorio Alfieri

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing. — Clint Eastwood

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. — Vittorio Alfieri

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself. — Vittorio De Sica

Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't have images. — Vittorio Storaro

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief. — Vittorio De Sica

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. — Vittorio Alfieri

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. — Vittorio Alfieri

Necessity inspires the fatal thought. — Vittorio Alfieri

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life. — Vittorio Grigolo

Light is knowledge ,
Knowledge is love ,
Love is freedom. — Vittorio Storaro

Let me pay the price for you instead. — Anne Rice

A usurper always distrusts the whole world. — Vittorio Alfieri

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond. — Vittorio Alfieri

I want to be remembered for my dreams. — Vittorio Arrigoni

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. — Jean Dujardin

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. — Vittorio Grigolo

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri

There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on. — Vittorio De Sica

We must remain human, even in the most difficult times ...
Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others. — Vittorio Arrigoni

I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of the Creator in every human life I ever encountered, and in every human life I took. — Anne Rice

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged. — Vittorio Alfieri

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled. — Vittorio Alfieri

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. — Vittorio Alfieri

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life. — Vittorio Grigolo

He can see us, said the angel who had been gesturing so pointedly. His voice was subdued but seemed to reach my ears effortlessly and gently. — Anne Rice

That's the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms. — Anne Rice

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love. — Vittorio Alfieri

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life. — Vittorio Grigolo

Liars are always most disposed to swear. — Vittorio Alfieri

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature. — Vittorio Grigolo

But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.
I am a vampire.
My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy. — Anne Rice

First thoughts are not always the best. — Vittorio Alfieri

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional. — Vilmos Zsigmond

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. — Vittorio Alfieri

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian. — Vittorio Gassman

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. — Vittorio Alfieri

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear. — Vittorio Alfieri

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. — Vittorio Alfieri

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears. — Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. — Vittorio Alfieri

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. — Vittorio Gassman

All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art. — Vittorio Storaro

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. — Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration. — Beeban Kidron

I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it. — Sebastian Stan

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri

Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have the power to denounce, to teach, to inspire, sometimes to heal. That was a kind of epiphany and so I decided that being a writer would be my way to keep on keeping on and that words would be my bullets, my answers to the Weapons of Mass Deception. From that day on my conscience was at ease and growing old more endurable. And I knew I could 'look up and see the sky'. — Vittorio Vandelli

I like the edge of danger. — Vittorio Grigolo

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.
"Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love. — Anne Rice