Italian Quotes · Page 17

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

— Djibril Cisse

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

Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me

— Pharrell Williams

“The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)”

— Maria Grazia Swan

I love cooking Italian food. My dad is Italian, although my dishes also have my mum's German-Polish influence.

— Jack Savoretti

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

— Woody Allen

“The Japanese are easily influenced, Italian's are infectious, And German's are German's wherever they go.”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta…

— Jennifer Esposito

I really got the 'Rhoda' flavor from studying my stepmother, Angela, who's Italian, not Jewish. There's really so little difference between the…

— Valerie Harper

I love to listen to pop all the time! I like to be updated on the new hits; I think it's important…

— Domenico Dolce

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys…

— Roberto Benigni

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to…

— Robert Towne

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye…

— Silvia Colloca

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot…

— Al Pacino

If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it…

— Vincent Cassel

The actors are telling the truth on some level, and people have to believe it. At Cannes, a lot of people said,…

— Laura Dern

I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For…

— Ray Romano

I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian…

— Truman Capote

I have to admit, I am aware of my Latin roots now. In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that…

— Italo Zucchelli

There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers…

— Clive James

Being a teenage model was lot of fun, like playing dress-up. I'd feel ugly and awkward and chubby, and they'd transform me.…

— Liv Tyler

I was always pretty broad. I've had a couple bad experiences. One time, I showed up late for a gig in Brooklyn…

— Nick Swardson

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's…

— David Byrne

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

— Lauren Ambrose

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

— Vincent B. Chip LoCoco

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

— Lord Byron

“sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.”

— Estelle Getty

I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the…

— Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

When I did my first story for Italian Vogue for Franca Sozzani, she gave me something like 47 full pages, and I…

— Roxanne Lowit

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

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

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

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

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

— Ann Goldstein