Italian Quotes - Page 14

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

  Morena Baccarin

  Party, Avid, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

  Joy Behar

  Thinking, People, Way

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• 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.

  Bruce Bennett

  Europe, Outlook, Feels

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• If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, People, Complaining

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Blue

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• Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Vote, Rebellious

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• I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

  Tilda Swinton

  Lazy People, Speak, Slow Down

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Border agents have now been issued air guns that shoot pepper balls at people coming across the Mexican border. Have they thought this through? Is that going to bother people from Mexico? Pepper balls? Don't these people eat jalapenos? Isn't that like firing meatballs at an Italian guy?

  Jay Leno

  Gun, Air, Mexican Border

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• Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

  Anthony Burgess

  Witty, Simple, Enough

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

  Barbara Steele

  Beautiful, Dark, Symbolism

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• I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world...except for China where they have all those derelicts.

  Mike Shannon

  Thinking, World, China

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• People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Thinking, People, Advice

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• In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Littles, Speak, Needed

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.

  Nadia Giosia

  Rockets, Surgery

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• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

  Robert Englund

  Venice, Festivals, Comedy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Years, Trying

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• 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

  Heart, Yuppies, Mulberry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Offering, Shopping, Lines

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

  Claire Forlani

  Years, Parent, Four

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• I've noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know 'Can't Hardly Wait.' I got the goth kids who know 'Buffy.' I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know 'Scooby-Doo.' Then I get the international people who seem to know 'Austin Powers' and 'The Italian Job.

  Seth Green

  Girl, Jobs, Kids

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• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  Alice Hamilton

  Believe, Europe, Chicago

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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• I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

  Eva Herzigova

  French Love, Cuisine

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• 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

  New York, Roles, Actors

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• If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Blood, Feeling Down, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Political, Politician

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