Italian Quotes

• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Jewish

• You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Power
  • Police
  • New York

• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • African

• I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Food
  • Italian

• I want to win the Italian league. That's why I said no to Manchester United.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Want
  • Win
  • League

• I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Family
  • Learning

• To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Fun
  • Italian

• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Identity

• I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Mom
  • Cooking
  • Italian

• I look Italian, but I act Irish.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Serious
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.

  

  Sebastian Arcelus
  • Men
  • Home
  • Mother

• We want to help further the understanding of the Italian culture and language to those who are interested. We're hoping that these events will spark students' interests in our club and prompt more people to join, along with providing an educational and entertaining experience.

  

  William Weaks Morris
  • Culture
  • Understand
  • Italian

• Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Italian
  • Safe
  • Survived

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

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • American
  • Husband
  • Italian

• Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Great
  • Italian

• I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Italian

• I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

  

  Meta Golding
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • French

• My style in Italian is very old-style.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Style
  • Italian

• Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • People
  • Food
  • Italian

• 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, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Problem

• The Caprese salad perfectly represents the colors of the Italian flag. While I am not so sure that the colors of the flag stem from the cuisine, there is no denying that those colors do evoke a typical Italian plate.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Italian

• Whether you talk about the olive oil, whether you talk about Aceto Balsamico, whether you talk about Grana Padano, whether you talk about Mozzarella di Bufala. These are all traditional Italian products that are hard to beat, and they're easy to transport and buy. You don't have to do much around it. Just eat them.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Italian

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