Italian Quotes

• I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Great
  • Italian

• I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Mother
  • Italian

• Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Words
  • Italian

• I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Time
  • Italian

• I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Food
  • Italian

• I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Irish

• The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.

  

  Bill Buford
  • Simple
  • Practice
  • Cooking

• I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Italian

• So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. 'You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Italian

• I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Dad
  • Italian

• Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • Paid
  • Havens

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

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Italian

• Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Trying
  • High

• The secret is that I am Italian.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Italian

• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: 'The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.'

  

  Bill Mauldin
  • World
  • Important
  • Reading

• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Names
  • Italian
  • Bears

• I love Italian food.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Food
  • Italian

• Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Painter
  • Trudeau
  • National Gallery

• My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

  

  Kiran Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Music
  • Husband

• I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

  

  Pauly D
  • School
  • High
  • Hair

• In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.

  

  Vittorio Gassman
  • World
  • Real
  • Hours

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