Italy Quotes

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

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

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Italy is a geographical expression.