Italian Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Dad, Father

  "Lady Gaga tells students she was bulimic as a high schooler". Lady Gaga's remarks during a young women's conference "It’s Our Turn" at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Attitude, People, Way

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

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• There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

  Richard Rogers

  Jewish Tradition, Tradition, Jewish Family

  "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one's titled Italian admirer, when--quelle surprise!--one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.

  Peter Mayle

  Phones, Hair, Sunglasses

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Jun 23, 2012

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• I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

  Al Pacino

  Style, Acting, Helping

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Moving, Thinking, Guy

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Rome

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• She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Insecure, Revolution, Hips

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.

  Domenico Dolce

  Style, Tradition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I found a movie called “Light in the Piazza.” I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could make that movie, so I went to work on becoming that character. They told me they had an Italian [actor], and I said, “That’s a Cuban boy!” His name was Tomas Milan. I thought that’s the craziest thing I’d ever heard: They have a Cuban who’s going to play an Italian, and I can’t play it because I’m an American.

  George Hamilton

  Character, Boys, Play

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

  Stefano Gabbana

  Fashion, Style, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Country, Europe, People

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• I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

  Brittany Murphy

  Kids, Play, Careers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It's a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews - like Trotsky.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Atheist, Mafia, Spy

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• I was in a group show at a museum in Torino, a lot of American artists installed in a floor of this museum. Another floor of the museum houses the most refined collection of arte povera in the world, which is perfectly selected and perfectly installed. I remember being struck by the contrast between the Italian works and the American. I would say the hallmarks of the Italian style are a poetical connection to nature and to materiality, materials, and exquisite taste. On contrast, the American work was essentially a bunch of bad-tempered, complaining kids.

  David Salle

  Kids, Artist, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

  Nico

  Dad, Half, Combination

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• An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Army, Might, French Army

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.392, e-artnow

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Medicine, Scotch

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

  Robert Hamer

  Revenge, People, Taste

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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

  Men, Break Off, Rivals

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• I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.

  Ayelet Zurer

  Dream, Looks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Football, Moving, Simple

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• I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

  Bradley Cooper

  Catholic, Irish Family, Grew Up

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• 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

  Country, Pride, Family Love

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Country, America, Culture

  Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

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