Italian Quotes

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

I had lots of posters on my bedroom wall of players like Zico, many Brazilian and Italian players, not many players in particular but I loved football so much and I especially loved skilful players.

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.