Italian Quotes

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

I love being Italian.

I came from an Italian house. The refrigerator was always full. I never knew you had to buy food. I thought there were food fairies that came at night.

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

I am very proud to be Italian.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate.

A fool and his money are soon married.

Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.