Italian Quotes · Page 12

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

— Juvenal

“He was Italian, young, and good-looking.”

— C.J. Pinard

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

— Barbara Steele

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers...

— Bob Hope

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

— Anthony Michael Hall

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

— Lee Child

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

— Jason Bateman

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

— Louis Tomlinson

I'm Scottish. Both my parents were born there, but I'm very proud of my Italian heritage as well.

— Dario Franchitti

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better.…

— Anonymous

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

— Susan Lucci

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

— Benito Mussolini

I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that…

— Cliff Curtis

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot…

— Al Pacino

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions...…

— Colin Firth

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it…

— Vincent Cassel

The Russian economy is about the size of the Italian economy; it's very small, and Russia's military force is larger than it…

— Anne Applebaum

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so…

— Connie Francis

Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement…

— Andre Vltchek

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with…

— Mario Balotelli

There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been…

— Noam Chomsky

My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super…

— Moran Atias

I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, "How would you like to go…

— Clint Eastwood

When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.…

— Nick Offerman

Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the…

— Penelope Cruz

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed…

— John Berger

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly…

— Samuel Johnson

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

— James Franco

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

— Al D'Amato

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

— Patricia Highsmith

Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your…

— Jeremy Scott

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

— Candice Huffine

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I…

— Dominic Chianese

I love that I've become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love…

— Lidia Bastianich

I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.

— Sonam Kapoor

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

— Juliet Aubrey

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

— Tyne Daly

My favorite pizza is the real Neapolitan - Italian sausage, friarielli, mozzarella and chilli.

— Gino D'Acampo

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny.…

— Sugar Ray Leonard