“Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.”
Charles Kay - Count Orsini-Rosenberg

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
Lily Tomlin

“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