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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I`m not afraid. In my career, I`ve always scored goals, wherever I`ve been.
Ronaldo Lima
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I speak as much as I can about the working man in the Italian American community. It`s the working man who makes up the heart of the community. The Italian Americans I play are mobsters who have a heart or a positive element.
Chazz Palminteri
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I speak as much as I can about the working man in the Italian American community. It`s the working man who makes up the heart of the community. The Italian Americans I play are mobsters who have a heart or a positive element.
Chazz Palminteri
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I`ve been really fortunate in the fact that I`ve gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters. Drusilla is amazing, and is such a rich character, and then to go from that and work on a New York Italian character, to get tha...
Juliet Landau
Keywords: all :: amazing :: and :: been :: chance :: character :: characters :: di :: different :: do :: drusilla :: fact :: fortunate :: from :: get :: go :: gotten :: in :: is :: italian :: kinds :: new :: of :: on :: range :: real :: really :: rich :: such :: that :: the :: then :: to :: ve :: wide :: work :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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[on the untimely death of Pier Paolo Pasolini] A remarkable director -- a great loss to Italian culture. It was as if he was discovering cinema from scratch.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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I love Italy and I have a deep tie with my Italian roots. I stand for Kerry, I hope he will arrive at the White House. We need a different Government to represent America. The change of presidency would be a clear and international sign to say that we are...
Robert De Niro
Keywords: america :: and :: app :: are :: arrive :: at :: be :: change :: clear :: deep :: different :: for :: government :: have :: he :: hope :: house :: international :: italian :: italy :: kerry :: love :: my :: need :: of :: presidency :: represent :: roots :: say :: sign :: stand :: that :: the :: tie :: to :: we :: white :: will :: with :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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In America most everybody who`s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I`m all Italian. I`m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
Al Pacino
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In America most everybody who`s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I`m all Italian. I`m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
Al Pacino
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In America most everybody who`s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I`m all Italian. I`m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
Al Pacino
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[About Dario Argento and his film Profondo rosso (1975)] "This young Italian guy is starting to worry me."
Alfred Hitchcock
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One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don`t have out here in California is Rita`s Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
Joseph Jonas
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In response to an invitation to write an autobiography - "Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?"
Claudette Colbert
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Do you know what my real name is? It`s Clorinda. Which is also Italian. They used to call me Clorox when I was a kid.
Linda Fiorentino
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[to Eli Wallach prior to starting work on Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly")] Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things. Stay away from special effects and explosives.
Clint Eastwood
Keywords: 1966 :: about :: an :: and :: anyone :: away :: bad :: brutto :: buono :: cattivo :: effects :: eli :: explosives :: from :: good :: il :: italian :: know :: movie :: never :: on :: prior :: special :: starting :: stay :: the :: these :: things :: to :: trust :: ugly :: wallach :: workSource: imdb.com
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American men like their women to have these special teeth and be perfectly coiffured and have amazing breasts. Have you seen an Italian mama with those kinds of teeth, that kind of hair, and that kind of waist? They`re not like that. They`re in the kitche...
Oliver Reed
Keywords: amazing :: american :: an :: and :: be :: breasts :: coiffured :: coo :: hair :: have :: in :: italian :: kind :: kinds :: kitchen :: like :: mama :: men :: not :: of :: perfectly :: re :: seen :: special :: teeth :: that :: the :: their :: these :: they :: those :: to :: waist :: with :: women :: youSource: imdb.com
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[about remakes of his classic films such as Get Carter (1971) and The Italian Job (1969)] I wish they would remake the BAD ones!
Michael Caine
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When [Mel Brooks] told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: "Bring her over. I`ll be in the kitchen - with my head in the oven".
Anne Bancroft
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[Recalling a period he went through when he was 18]: I watched Raging Bull (1980) like 50 times. I wanted to be Italian. For a year I was Italian; that`s all I did. I could do all that New York street stuff to the point where I would get feedback from my ...
Sam Rockwell
Keywords: 18 :: 1980 :: 50 :: all :: auditions :: be :: bull :: could :: did :: do :: feedback :: for :: from :: get :: he :: italian :: like :: my :: new :: period :: point :: raging :: recalling :: street :: stuff :: that :: the :: through :: times :: to :: wanted :: was :: watched :: went :: when :: where :: would :: year :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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[Recalling a period he went through when he was 18]: I watched Raging Bull (1980) like 50 times. I wanted to be Italian. For a year I was Italian; that`s all I did. I could do all that New York street stuff to the point where I would get feedback from my ...
Sam Rockwell
Keywords: 18 :: 1980 :: 50 :: all :: auditions :: be :: bull :: could :: did :: do :: feedback :: for :: from :: get :: he :: italian :: like :: my :: new :: period :: point :: raging :: recalling :: street :: stuff :: that :: the :: through :: times :: to :: wanted :: was :: watched :: went :: when :: where :: would :: year :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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[on his character Lyle in The Italian Job (2003) (who speaks a lot of technical jargon:] "I don`t believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don`t have a fax. But part of the reason I got this job is that I`m good at making complicated technical t...
Seth Green
Keywords: 2003 :: and :: at :: believe :: but :: cell :: character :: complicated :: don :: fax :: good :: got :: have :: his :: in :: is :: italian :: jargon :: job :: lot :: lyle :: mail :: making :: of :: on :: part :: phone :: rarely :: reason :: soun :: speaks :: technical :: terms :: that :: the :: this :: use :: whoSource: imdb.com
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On asked who he would invite to a dinner party he answered: "I`d have to have Jesus Christ there - I`d like to check him out. I`d also have to have [the Italian revolutionary] Garibaldi, because he`s a hero of mine, and I`d invite Shakespeare and King Hen...
Jamie Bamber
Keywords: also :: and :: answered :: asked :: because :: check :: christ :: dinner :: garibaldi :: have :: he :: henry :: hero :: him :: invite :: italian :: jesus :: king :: like :: mine :: of :: on :: out :: party :: revolutionary :: shakespeare :: the :: there :: to :: who :: wouldSource: imdb.com
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[of his character Lyle in The Italian Job (2003):] "There`s no greater way to gain an audience`s sympathy than by being unfortunate. My main goal was to not make him this mono-dimensional computer guy. There had to be a reason this guy could hang with thi...
Seth Green
Keywords: 2003 :: an :: audience :: be :: being :: by :: character :: computer :: could :: dimensional :: gain :: goal :: greater :: guy :: had :: hang :: him :: his :: in :: italian :: job :: lyle :: main :: make :: mono :: my :: no :: not :: of :: reason :: sympathy :: than :: the :: there :: this :: to :: tough :: unfortunate :: was :: way :: withSource: imdb.com
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I can`t point anything specific out, but I`m a big David Lynch fan, he`s a big influence on Saw, and another director I truly admire as well, is an Italian, Dario Argento? These two guys have a big impact on us, Deep Red, Lost Highway.
James Wan
Keywords: admire :: an :: and :: another :: anything :: argento :: as :: big :: but :: can :: dario :: david :: deep :: director :: fan :: guys :: have :: he :: highway :: impact :: influence :: is :: italian :: lost :: lynch :: on :: out :: point :: red :: saw :: specific :: these :: truly :: two :: us :: wellSource: imdb.com
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I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
Robert De Niro
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I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
Robert De Niro
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I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
Robert De Niro
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I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
Robert De Niro
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I did my first job as an actor and my first role was in 1978 in Rome. I did a play with an Italian actor named Victor Cavallo who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci. After that I was very much a part of the New York performance art and underground theater an...
Vincent Gallo
Keywords: 1978 :: actor :: after :: an :: and :: art :: as :: bernardo :: bertolucci :: cavallo :: did :: first :: in :: italian :: job :: much :: my :: named :: new :: of :: part :: performance :: play :: role :: rome :: that :: the :: theater :: underground :: very :: victor :: was :: who :: with :: worked :: yorkSource: imdb.com
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[on her ethnic background] Well, I`m Italian, but my family isn`t stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don`t yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn`t even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
Jennifer Esposito
Keywords: and :: at :: background :: but :: doesn :: don :: each :: ethnic :: even :: family :: have :: her :: isn :: italian :: mean :: mother :: my :: on :: one :: only :: or :: other :: pasta :: recipe :: sauce :: secret :: sister :: spaghetti :: stereotypical :: throw :: we :: well :: yellSource: imdb.com
