Dario Fo
Dario Fo
Dario Fois an Italian actor-playwright, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner of the italian extremist left-wing, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre", much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 March 1926
CountryItaly
It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who live only 20 years, but many, many people remember them because they knew how to live the time that was given to them. I'm not suggesting that you should live only 20 years. Live as long as you can, but from time to time, think '20 years, 20 years, 20 years', and put them together.
Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
Blush at your faults.
Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Health and an able body are two jewels.
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.
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...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.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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.