I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Italian-American family in the suburbs of Westchester County, just a little north of New York City. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people. — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
If you're an actor from New York, and you're Italian-American, you grow up hoping Marty Scorsese knows your name at some point… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
My family is very, very important to me. My mother is Italian American. Shes a very strong woman, a good role model.… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
My dad wanted to be a pianist. But as a working-class Italian American kid he was the first person in his family… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to… — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. — Al D'Amato Copy Share Image
“There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)” — Traci Andrighetti Copy Share Image
“Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.” — A.A. Freda Copy Share Image
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me. — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built… — Chazz Palminteri Copy Share Image
We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks… — Rocco DiSpirito Copy Share Image
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff,… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“The Mob loved Sinatra not just because he was Italian-American, but because he had crossed over into a nether world in which… — Nancy Jo Sales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself part of the Kennedy family. It's almost like a little point of honor. I'm a DiFalco at the… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
