Americans Quote by Chazz Palminteri

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

— Jason Bateman

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 on the…

— Chazz Palminteri

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack…

— Bob Colacello

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.

— John Patrick Shanley

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 to get…

— Michael Imperioli

Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately,…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

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

— Martin Scorsese

I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love…

— Nancy Pelosi

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

— Andrea Navedo

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on…

— Lorraine Bracco

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

— Lapo Elkann

I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said,…

— Sandra Cisneros