Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Chita Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

David Sedaris

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

David Suchet

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

David Naughton

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Brunello Cucinelli

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Bryan Sykes

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related.

Michelangelo Antonioni

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

Bernardo Bertolucci

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

Diablo Cody

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Diego Della Valle

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

Diego Della Valle

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

Edoardo Ponti

My parents could not be more Italian.

Chelsea Peretti

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Benjamin Franklin

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

Derrick Williams

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

Diane von Furstenberg

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Isabella Rossellini

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Brian Clough

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

Brenda Song

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

Claire Forlani

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

Elizabeth I

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

Eli Wallach

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

Armand Assante

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

Bruce Bennett

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

Barbara Steele

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

Elizabeth Bowen

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

Dario Argento

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

Adriano Giannini

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

Grazia Deledda

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

Andrea Bocelli

My style in Italian is very old-style.