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.
I’m Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I’m 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don’t fight with our families.
I don’t really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I’m doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I’m gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
My father’s Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I’m also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.
I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.
I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.
Some of my closest friends are Angelo Ogbonna, who’s Italian, and Pablo Fornals who is Spanish. His English is good but is not proper. There’s enough for me to understand what he’s got to say and we can go out and have a meal and be able to speak to each other through it so it is quality.
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 thought, ‘This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.’ So I came out of prison a man with a plan, determined to set up a business importing Italian ingredients.
I come from this macho Italian neighborhood. When I was thirteen, during those real vulnerable, impressionable years, and a boy starts becoming a man, to make that transition, and you start making decisions, and you start developing virtue and principles – I never made the transition.
Italian language and culture are beloved throughout the U.S.A.
I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn’t expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would’ve expected that and the food, I guess you’re learning something about me, the food in Prague, they’re very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.
We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.
I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn’t work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.
Now they’re attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture – their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it’s Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.
I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
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.
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I thought that would be really appropriate. I got a hand-stitched Italian apron from this woman in Sicily who put my name on it, and it said, ‘Sicily, Italy.’ So now I get one from everywhere I go.
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.
I am Italian. Springsteen’s mostly Italian, too. We’re both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common.
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.
Coming from an Italian family, my parents had supermarkets and they said I had to take over as any son should take over the family business – I copped a lot of flak when I said ‘no.’
I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.
As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I’m so jealous I wasn’t born Italian.
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.’
I haven’t noticed too much of a difference between Italian guys and American guys, but we’re sports-entertainers so maybe they know to stand back a little!
I speak for all Italian industry that India is number one priority for us.
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don’t because I don’t speak Italian.
I love the Italian culture – it’s a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes… I just love it! Sometimes I think I’m an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman’s body.
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it’s a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
My mother is Italian and my dad’s Irish. In my family, we’re expressive. Nobody holds back.
Giada De Laurentiis, of ‘Everyday Italian,’ is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise – she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family – her father owned a pizzeria!
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
All of my books have been about authentic Italian food in Italy and bringing that message about simple and authentic food.
I like Italian food.
It’s the ‘Italian Vogue.’ Of course, I said yes!
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
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.
I love Italian food; it’s soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it’s market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
I go to Franny’s in Brooklyn a lot. It’s just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.
I had a great career, to go from a small town in Switzerland to play for the Italian national team was a dream come true. So was playing for Lazio and Chelsea, winning trophies. When I look back I am very grateful for what I had, rather than what I missed.
I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers – there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.
My name is actually Snoh, but there’s a rapper with that name already out there, so I was asked to add something to it. I didn’t really want to do it at first, but then I thought of Aalegra. It has a connection to music and means ‘joy’ in Italian.
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he’s dressed perfect.
On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
