Italian Quotes · Page 13

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

— Sophia Bush

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

— Victoria de los Angeles

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way…

— Michael Imperioli

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

— David Suchet

I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, they’ve got…

— David Gandy

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know,…

— George Allen

I always wanted to learn French or Italian growing up. I love the romantic sound of those languages.

— Riley Stearns

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'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

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

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

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

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed…

— Patrick Fabian

Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look…

— Trevor Huddleston

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an…

— William Golding

Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the…

— Michael Scott

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

I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could…

— Walter Matthau

Italian work is excellent but it takes them six months to do what we do in a week.

— William Hanna

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

— Donna Leon

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

— Linda Evangelista

What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.

— William C. Brown

My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me.

— Andrea Navedo

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

— Graham Spanier

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in…

— Clint Eastwood

My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.

— Gail Carriger

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

— Leo Buscaglia

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

— Yolanda Adams

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

— Wang Leehom

If Rooney had been Italian, he would have been loved like Francesco Totti was at Roma.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might…

— Brian Clough

My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia,…

— Danielle Macdonald

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian…

— Evelyn Waugh

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

— Robert Loggia