Italian Quotes · Page 19

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

— Quentin Tarantino

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the…

— Pauline Kael

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

— Alex Ferguson

The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

— Valentino Rossi

"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul.

— Dan Brown

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going…

— Richard Hammond

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or…

— Tyler Posey

My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch…

— Meg Cabot

“What type of food?" "What do you mean what type?" "I mean Mexican, Italian, French, American?" "I wasn't aware that American was…

— Brett Arquette

I had a relationship with an Italian chick that was built on just fighting and sex. As much as all women won't…

— Denis Leary

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up…

— Debi Mazar

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes…

— Baz Luhrmann

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the…

— Steve Carell

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think…

— Charlize Theron

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be…

— Quentin Tarantino

I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying…

— Mike Patton

“He showed me how each wheel was stamped with the month and year, and then he cracked the first one open to…

— Ruth Reichl

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and…

— Vito Acconci

“But why must everything always have a practical application? I’d been such a diligent soldier for years—working, producing, never missing a deadline,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr.…

— E.M. Forster

“We eat spaghetti all' amatriciana , with a sauce of guanciale , which is the pig's" ---he ran his finger down her…

— Anthony Capella

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

— Anthony Bourdain

Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

— William C. Brown

I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

— Pauly D

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

— Ann Goldstein

My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.

— Wally Lamb

The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy…

— Riccardo Tisci

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from…

— Eduard Hanslick

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

— Erwin Rommel

In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of…

— Peter Eisenman

I'm Italian, so I need to get someone to wax my eyebrows, but I'm not so good at keeping it up.

— Gia Coppola

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

— Elizabeth I

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

“He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]”

— Vincent B. Chip LoCoco