“Hey, I'm a paisan', huh? What did ya expect? What do you want me to do, want me to cook you up a pile of Ragù? You want me to sweat garlic for you? Huh? Sing an opera? Lose a war? Huh?”

Gregory Hines - Ray Hughes

“Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers. He cannot, like Hitler, make them feel like that.”

J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe

“If only I was born Italian... all the best Yankees are Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup, what chance do I have?”

Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Fern: Are you Jewish?
- Lorena: No, I'm Italian.
- Fern: Same thing.”
Jessica Walter - Fern
Vera Farmiga - Lorena

“Being gay and Italian is a fate worse than... Actually there is no fate worse than being gay and Italian.”
Luke Kirby - Angelo Barberini