[on winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Life Is Beautiful after already accepting the Best Foreign Language Film award as its director] "Thank you. This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all my English!" "Charlie Chaplin used his ass better than any other actor. In all his films his ass is practically the protagonist. For a comic, the ass has incredible importance." "I'm so happy that every organ in my body is moving in a very bad way." - said backstage at the Oscars after he won the Best Actor category.