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If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? -- Martin Scorsese
Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. -- Sophia Bush
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. -- Ambrose Bierce
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. -- Katharine Hepburn
Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food. -- Elisha Cuthbert
There's nothing more romantic than Italian food. -- Elisha Cuthbert
I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken. -- Joe Jonas
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. -- Peter Ustinov
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. -- Bradley Cooper
Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. -- Wolfgang Puck
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice. -- Eva Herzigova
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. -- Martin Scorsese
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. -- George Miller
When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure. -- Alex Ferguson
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. -- Richard Rogers
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. -- Mario Batali
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those! -- Hunter Hayes
Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. -- George Saintsbury
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. -- Thomas Keller
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. -- Elton John
I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. -- Alicia Keys
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. -- Francis Ford Coppola
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. -- Rocco DiSpirito
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
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other. -- Aristotle Onassis
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. -- Al Pacino
I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen. -- Queen Latifah
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines. -- Carole Bouquet
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. -- Hugh Jackman
I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta. -- Giada De Laurentiis
I love being Italian. -- Connie Stevens
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia. -- Chazz Palminteri
Nearly all Italian officers speak French. -- Hugh Dalton
I am very proud to be Italian. -- Madonna Ciccone
My parents could not be more Italian. -- Edoardo Ponti
Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef. -- Jose Andres Puerta
My style in Italian is very old-style. -- Andrea Bocelli
I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. -- Meta Golding
Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
An Italian university is a contradiction in terms. -- Indro Montanelli
I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. -- Eva Herzigova
There is nothing like a fine Italian sound. -- Itzhak Perlman
I speak African. I can even speak Italian. -- Frank Bruno
The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory. -- David Coleman
I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing! -- Sophia Loren
I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino, -- Jeremy Scott
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate. -- Patricia Briggs
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. -- Benito Mussolini
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. -- Peter Weller
French people are Italian people in a bad mood. -- Jean Cocteau
The Italian economy has been held back for decades. -- Mario Monti
I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian. -- Stjepan Hauser
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. -- Irving Babbitt
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness. -- Harry Lloyd
I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality. -- Mario Monti
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery. -- Nadia Giosia
Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police. -- George Hamilton
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. -- Robert Englund
I'm an Italian girl from the south who's very passionate. -- Jessie James Decker
I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk. -- Lea Michele
My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel! -- Kendall Jenner
I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity. -- Benito Mussolini
I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook. -- Robert Cray
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic. -- Barbara Steele
Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre. -- Perry Groves
My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.' -- Nadia Giosia
You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like. -- Geraldine Ferraro
I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair. -- Peter Shilton
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian. -- Mike Birbiglia
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. -- Frank Gehry
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working. -- Daniel Handler
Italian women are among the largest group of European consumers of hosiery. -- Sandro Veronesi
The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. -- Romano Prodi
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. -- Chita Rivera
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. -- Armand Assante
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. -- Zoe Saldana
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western -- Armand Assante
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. -- Donatella Versace
Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza. -- Alyssa Milano
I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup? -- Shaun Newton
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. -- Alexander Payne
See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food. -- Christy Carlson Romano
I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor. -- Lady Gaga
There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. -- Romano Prodi
Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. -- Peter Ustinov
Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day. -- Benito Mussolini
Our girl's going to Capri for fun. We've got an Italian island vibe. -- Christian Siriano
A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics. -- Anibal Cavaco Silva
I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself. -- Judy Tenuta
I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. -- Izabel Goulart
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine! -- Benito Mussolini
I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian. -- David Markson
She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it. -- Milton Berle
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. -- Benito Mussolini
I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian. -- Domenico Gnoli
I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference. -- Christian Serratos
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. -- Domenico Dolce
In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
I speak for all Italian industry that India is number one priority for us. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
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I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. -- Adriana Lima
I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing! -- Tom Felton
Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state. -- Donna Leon
It's really important for me to have Italian-Americans and Jersey in a positive light. -- Diane Ruggiero
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Nancy Pelosi
I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian. -- Woody Allen
I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look. -- Kabir Bedi
Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life. -- Mariska Hargitay
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. -- Martin Scorsese
Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures. -- Chelsea Peretti

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