Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Bocelli

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.

Antonio Tabucchi

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Louis Tomlinson

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

Alfred Molina

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Adriana Lima

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

Claudia Cardinale

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

Bradley Cooper

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

Albert Camus

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Andrea Mitchell

Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

Alexander Payne

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

Dolly Parton

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Dave Grohl

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

Dario Argento

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Colin Firth

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.

David Byrne

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

Dario Fo

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Karl Lagerfeld

Italian craftsmanship is really our treasure. So we're very proud of that and we try to do everything by hand.

Italy has been split in half. This is an opportunity for Italians to come together, whether we're in Italy or living abroad.

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Dino De Laurentiis

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Sonam Kapoor

I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.

Claudia Cardinale

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

Peter Eisenman

In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.

David Bowie

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

Carlo Collodi

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

Isabella Rossellini

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Brandon Boyd

I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.

Barry McGuire

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

Chazz Palminteri

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

We made it look as Italian as we could inside.

Robert Mueller

The Italians are tremendously professional in protecting and providing security for such events, and from everything I saw, everything is well prepared and ready for the Olympics.