Italian Quotes

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

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

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

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

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

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

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.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

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 especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

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

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.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

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