Italian Quotes - Page 11

• Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Imagination, Shining, Culture

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

  Roberto Benigni

  Christian, Real, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Even though you'll see gnocchi or linguine everywhere in some of the regions of Italy, each of those chefs has their own expression of that which expresses more about the place they were exactly born than it does about trying to be a part of the greater mass. And that's the Italian culture.

  Mario Batali

  Trying, Culture, Chef

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact that it's pre-Internet, pre-cell phone. Everyone I think thinks their youth is a more innocent time. I just don't know.

  Greg Mottola

  Thinking, Youth, Cell Phone

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• If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

  Dave Grohl

  Light, Trying, Way

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Eyebrows, Georgia, Way

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

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Girl, War

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• I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Humorous, Law

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• To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

  Wim Wenders

  Fun, Littles, Doing You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

  Wim Wenders

  Mom, Reading, First Impression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  David Suchet

  Would Be, Outsiders, Accents

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn about Italian music. And what I ended up gravitating towards was this stuff from the '50s and '60s and maybe early '70s, where there were these incredibly talented pop singers that weren't using pop bands.

  Mike Patton

  Dirty, Hands, Years

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Writing, Play, Age

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• 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

  Fighting, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Boys, World, Tiny

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

  Lena Dunham

  School, Men, Play

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Home, Thinking, Greek

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Bombs

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• Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

  Sean Connery

  Character, Knowing, Sound

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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• If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Thinking, Catholic

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Father, Peruvians, Swiss

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• Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

  Stephen Colbert

  Issues, Cain, Selling

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