I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

- Francis Ford Coppola

All Italians speak Spanish without studying.

- Sirio Maccioni

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

- Pete Hamill

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

- Oriana Fallaci

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

- Kirk Douglas

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

- Jose Carreras

Italians allow anything in their cooking.

- Jose Andres

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

- Giorgio Napolitano

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

- Alan Hansen

What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

- Frances Mayes

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

- E. M. Forster

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

- Donna Leon

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

- Donna Leon

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

- Carmine Giovinazzo

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

- Bruno Tonioli

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.

- Boris Johnson

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

- Alain Prost