#italian

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. ↗

— Domenico Dolce

#family #fight #important #italian #our

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. ↗

— Robert Englund

#festival #film #film festival #i #italian

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

#even #family #i #italian #mean

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that. ↗

— Edie Falco

#also #focus #going #italian #much

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing! ↗

— Tom Felton

#cruz #half #halle #halle berry #i

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#beating #bunch #experience #find #gangsters

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #each #films #great #italian

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#culture #emotional #february #feel #fever

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#because #black #discriminated #experienced #grew