Italian Quotes · Page 11

“Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.”

— A.A. Freda

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

— Adriano Giannini

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

— Indro Montanelli

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

— Derrick Williams

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

— Kate Walsh

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

— Mario Cuomo

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into…

— Brandon Boyd

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

— Farhan Akhtar

Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

I have no Italian in me. I'm Cuban, Greek, Romanian and Sephardic Jew, so I couldn't get further from Italian. But I…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking…

— Sebastian Arcelus

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to…

— Leo Buscaglia

The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them…

— Camille Claudel

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce,…

— Josh Fox

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President…

— Mark Hertsgaard

I love to make soups. My father used to say, 'There's nothing like a nice bowl of soup.' One of my favorites…

— Tony Danza

Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant…

— Cheri Oteri

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because…

— Pat Cooper

An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the…

— Sergio Leone

I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy,…

— Brooke Burke

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the…

— Carl Zimmer

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Penelope Cruz

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

— Roger Federer

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

— Sullivan Stapleton

Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.

— Anonymous

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America…

— Lidia Bastianich

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

— Diane Cilento

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

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband,…

— Kiran Ahluwalia

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

— Anonymous

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

— Maynard James Keenan

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

— Anonymous

Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they…

— Alessia Cara

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care…

— Nicole Polizzi

Italian football's different to Spanish and German, but it's only different and not inferior.

— Mario Gomez

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the…

— Elton John