Paolo Bonolis Quotes

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

From the interview of Cinzia Marongiu, Paolo Bonolis: "Io, amato e criticato. La mia tv è trash? Ecco con chi sto tra seguaci del "Family Day" e mondo gay", Tiscali.it, 22 March 2019

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.

Today it is very difficult to fly, we began to live with difficulty when we started to ask ourselves not what is right or wrong, but what is convenient. Reasoning by expediency has brought out the Italian soul, which is neither Hector nor Achilles, but Ulysses: expediency is being cunning, looking for the Trojan Horse, wanting to be smarter than others.

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

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

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.

I have five children, I like children. Maybe that means I also like wives.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

[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?