Explore Quotes by Dario Fo

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.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

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.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

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.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

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.

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

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.

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.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

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.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

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.'

Laughter does not please the mighty.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.