Paolo Bonolis Quotes

From the interview Bonolis su Totti ai Mondiali: "Non lo porterei, è indolente..., Gazzetta.it, 2 October 2013

As quoted in Ivan Palumbo, Il blob: Mazzola e Sacchi ce l'hanno coi mediocri, Galliani e Inzaghi hanno paura, Gazzetta.it, 20 November 2014.

If this Thohir comes from Indonesia with a tale of 13 billion a year turnover, he must have some money. Either he's lying, or he has it.

[On homogenitoriality]... with respect to love, affective availability belongs equally to different behavioural genders. What does it matter whether it is two men with a child, or a man and a woman, or two women? I do not know who is able to decide how it is right to love.

The year of Serie B can be considered the year of the issue of Italiani (2001), a programme that went particularly badly; not only because of the writing of the programme, and for demanding live coverage, but above all because that year Giorgio Panarielllo went on air with a wonderful show 'Torno Sabato, which literally tore us to pieces.

[On homogenitoriality] Sometimes I ask myself questions too. Here we are talking about love towards children, who have a right to love. That can come from a man and a woman, of course, but I ask myself: why can't that love come from two men or two women and instead be given by seven nuns? This is a question I ask myself. Why not? Why not?

In interviews I like to take not one but several steps backwards. I like TV that asks the questions and listens to the answers. Too often those asking questions are too complacent and don't listen to the interviewer.

Everyone who sells you a complete kit on the meaning of life is cheating you. I calmly ignore those who advocate incontrovertible truths. Standing on an exclamation mark is easy. I'm on the question mark: it's more basculating.

At university I studied, instead, criminal law which is why I can speak with full rights about Juventus.

Interviewer: Has TV, a certain kind of TV, corrupted the country?'Bonolis: Yes. The difference is when there is a lack of irony, when I don't say that I am showing a circus and mocking our everyday life. This applies more to information than to variety shows. It is very dangerous when information disguises itself as entertainment.

As quoted in Silvia Fumarola, Bonolis no limits: "Altro che tv trash, questa è l'apocalisse", Repubblica.it, 18 April 2016

Ciao Darwin shows the prodromes of the apocalypse. We don't show monsters, that humanity exists: it is the neighbour.

Ciao Darwin 8, aired March 22, 2019, on Mediaset; as quoted in Federico Boni Ciao Darwin 8, Paolo Bonolis: ‘un bimbo cresciuto da due etero o da due gay, non c’è differenza’, Gay.it, 23 March 2019

Let's say that if once the "Juve style" was synonymous with elegance, now it tends more towards the casual.

Francesco has God-blessed feet but is a little lazy in the ball-retrieval phase.