Top 1200 Being Italian Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.

My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

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

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

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

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

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

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

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.

Being a teenage model was lot of fun, like playing dress-up. I'd feel ugly and awkward and chubby, and they'd transform me. Not that that makes everything better. Then my mom shopped the pictures around, I guess, and the agencies started calling. I wound up going with a little agency, Spectrum. It all happened really quickly, I started modeling for magazines like YM and Seventeen, and I did a couple of bigger things like Italian Vogue.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.

I strongly believe that if you can survive for seven years in Italian football, you can make it anywhere else.

In New York, if you go into an Italian-American neighbourhood, the code of the streets is respect and reputation.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

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

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

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

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Italian football remains a very successful product, which has inspired people all over the world.

The national team can do so much for Italian football, as can even lads who no-one knows or who play in the lower Leagues.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

We need to put Italian interests before those of the European Union, or at least at the same level.

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

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

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

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

I love Italian food; you can't go wrong with Rosebud, and of course, I like Lou Malnati's pizza.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

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

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!