Italian Quotes

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

My parents could not be more Italian.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.