Italian Quotes

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

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.

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.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

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

Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

‎"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.

I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, they’ve got scarves on and suits.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.