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I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. -- Martin Scorsese
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. -- Martin Scorsese
I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me. -- Nancy Pelosi
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia. -- Chazz Palminteri
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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. -- Martin Scorsese
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people. -- Jason Bateman
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it. -- Mario Batali
I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. -- Michael Imperioli
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. -- Jennifer Lopez
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. -- Abel Ferrara
We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution. -- Rocco DiSpirito
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
I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. -- Bob Colacello
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French. -- Lorraine Bracco
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
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on. -- Martin Scorsese
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. -- Vinny Guadagnino
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy. -- Stanley Tucci
I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing. -- Colin Firth
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me. -- Martin Scorsese
People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger. -- Barack Obama
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. -- Chita Rivera
My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me. -- Andrea Navedo
Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'. -- Linda Evangelista
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels. -- Wally Lamb
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. -- Nas
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. -- Indro Montanelli
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. -- Allegra Huston
Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage. -- Al Pacino
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film. -- Monica Bellucci

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