Italian Quotes · Page 22

Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!

— Buddy Valastro

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

— Djibril Cisse

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented…

— Miranda Hart

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

— Kevin-Prince Boateng

I got married on a beach in Italy. It was very romantic getting married in Italian. But I've no idea what we…

— Denis Lawson

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

— Henny Youngman

I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home.…

— Robert Sietsema

The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you…

— Chiara Barzini

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the…

— Alessia Cara

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest…

— Gilbert Parker

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino'…

— Hugh Jackman

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who…

— Christopher Lee

My only ambition was to have a restaurant and bring real Italian food to this country. Television was never even part of…

— Gino D'Acampo

Some of my closest friends are Angelo Ogbonna, who's Italian, and Pablo Fornals who is Spanish. His English is good but is…

— Michail Antonio

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really…

— Thomas Keller

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

— Norman Jewison

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

— Eric Garcetti

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

— Joy Behar

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

— Diane von Furstenberg

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

— Mack McLarty

When there is a solid base of Italian players, those who come in take their example, and then everyone is working in…

— Andrea Pirlo

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

— Dolly Parton

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

— Nancy Pelosi

I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or…

— Sofia Milos

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just…

— Martin Scorsese

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting…

— Renzo Piano

“It was almost Christmas, and Renzo was preparing all the delicacies Florentines must eat at the festival: roast eels, goose, fancy cakes…

— Martine Bailey

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even…

— Paolo Nutini

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I…

— Penelope Cruz

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by…

— Roy Blount, Jr

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth…

— Walter Pater

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain…

— Pauly D

A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of…

— Cassandra Clare

I like to do Italian food on Sunday nights. We'll either go somewhere, and the whole family will go, or we'll stay…

— Betsy Brandt

For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British…

— Riccardo Tisci

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should…

— Edith Wharton

Italian people are so proud to show off. A little bit too much, I have to say. Wherever you go, they prepare…

— Gino D'Acampo