Italian Quotes

• 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 if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Italian

• I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Good
  • Food
  • Chinese

• I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Food
  • Italian Food

• I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, 'Sicily, Italy.' So now I get one from everywhere I go.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Italian

• Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Television

• Sure, Tod's makes shoes and bags. But we make them using leather, which is a living substance to me. And behind each shoe and bag, which in itself may be attractive and useful and comfortable to carry and wear, there is this Italian spirit, this Italian dream.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • May
  • Dream
  • Shoes

• English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • English

• When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • She
  • Restaurant

• I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music
  • School
  • Rock

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Warm
  • Crew

• I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

  

  James Franco
  • Different
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • World
  • Food
  • Cooking

• It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.

  

  John Blair
  • People
  • Important
  • Support

• 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 working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
  • Small
  • Walking

• I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Family
  • Mexican
  • Thanksgiving

• I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Language
  • Spanish
  • French

• I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• If you're an actor from New York, and you're Italian-American, you grow up hoping Marty Scorsese knows your name at some point before you die.

  

  Bobby Cannavale
  • Up
  • American
  • Die

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Country
  • Movies

• I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Up
  • Family
  • Catholic

• I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Live
  • Character
  • Amazing

• I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Wish
  • Italian

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