Italy quotes

“That's how it is here. People play at love. It's not serious. It is different in Italy. There, we kill for it!”
Greta Scacchi - Maria Cosway

“I swear, the phone companies'd go broke if it weren't for the Italians!”
Pia Miranda - Josie Alibrandi

“- Lizzie McGuire: Kate, you don't eat carbs.
- Kate Sanders: I'd eat carbs if an Italian boy bought them for me!”
Hilary Duff - Lizzie McGuire
Ashlie Brillault - Kate Sanders

“In this country they drive on the wrong side of the road.”

Sir Michael Caine - Charlie Croker

“- Angelo Barberini: Just don't eat anything my mother offers you.
- Nino Paventi: They threatened to kill me?
- Angelo Barberini: No, but they are Italian.”

Luke Kirby - Angelo Barberini
Peter Miller - Nino Paventi

“Smell! A true Florentine smell. Inhale, my dear. Deeper! Every city, let me tell you, has its own smell.”
Dame Judi Dench - Eleanor Lavish, a novelist

“In Italy, finding someone you can really hate is as important as finding someone to love.”
Gigi Proietti - Ravello

“- Dave: Italians are poor, but they're happy.
- Mike: Yeah? Maybe in Italy.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Dennis Quaid - Mike

“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
Franco Citti - Calo

“These Italian liners, ya know, they couldn't compete for speed, so they built these floating art palaces instead.”
Gabriel Byrne - Murphy

“You bring in a sous chef from an Italian restaurant and I'm the one in therapy?”

Catherine Zeta-Jones - Kate

“- King Roderick I: You spent some time in the Italian court?
- Hubert Hawkins: Why, yes. What better place to court Italians?”
Cecil Parker - King Roderick I
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“- Father Clemente: Congratulations on your daughter marrying Bruce Underwood.
- Sofia Provolone: I'm afraid there's been a change, Father. She's now marrying a nice Italian boy. Anthony Rossano.
- Father Clemente: It's all for the better. Nothing like a big Italian wedding!”
Don Ameche - Father Clemente
Ornella Muti - Sofia Provolone

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

“The Germans and the Italians couldn't get rid of us. There is absolutely no reason why we should surrender to the Scots.”
Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random

“The Second World War was quite a disaster for poor old Italy. Their Fascist leader, Mussolini, had teamed up with Hitler and thought he was on a winning ticket. Now, in 1948, the country is still leaderless, broke, and heading for chaos.”
Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“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

“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

“- Woman in Restaurant: Monsieur, is this what I ordered?
- Secondo: Yes, that is the Risotto. It is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy. It's delicious, I promise.
- Woman in Restaurant: It took so long, I thought you went back to Italy to get it.”
Caroline Aaron - Woman in Restaurant
Stanley Tucci - Secondo

“- Bob: Beautiful country, Italy.
- Secondo: You ever been there?
- Bob: No.”
Campbell Scott - Bob
Stanley Tucci - Secondo

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

“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

“- Dave: You can come and live with me when it's sold. In Italy, everybody lives together.
- Moocher: Since you won that Italian bike, man, you've been acting weird. You're really getting to think you're Italian, aren't you?
- Cyril: I wouldn't mind thinking I was somebody myself.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Jackie Earle Haley - Moocher
Daniel Stern - Cyril

“- Armand 'Flash' Carducci: Hi, girls. What's happening? My name's Flash, what's yours?
- Nancy: Don't talk to him, Cheryl, he's a dork.
- Armand 'Flash' Carducci: I'm not a dork, I'm Italian!”
John Mengatti - Armand 'Flash' Carducci
Tammy Taylor - Nancy

“- Reverend Beebe: Looking at Italian art! You see, you talk of coincidence and fate. You're naturally drawn to things Italian, as are we and all our friends, aren't we, Freddy? That narrows the field immeasurably.
- George Emerson: It is fate. But call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar.”
Simon Callow - The Reverend Mr Beebe
Julian Sands - George Emerson