“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.” MenFirstsFactsHomeMotherFatherGenerationsGrewMarriedGrew UpLatinItalianLatin AmericaLatin American Author:Sebastian Arcelus
“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.” LittlesWantedNightGirlFatherDadTablesItalianEvery NightSkinnyBallerinaVoluptuousMeatballsItalian Girl Author:Lady Gaga
“He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.” IfsKnowsFatherBasketballVersionsItalian Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.” MightFatherGivenSidesBornTakenStreetsFoodLessonsCookingLipsDenyEastTortureFancyRestaurantsTouchedCulinaryItalianCaptainsJointsManhattanSauceTomatoesWaiterEast SideCapri Book:Third Helpings Source: Third Helpings
“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.” PeopleKnowsDoneMotherFatherBornDadMetsSingingResearchEuropeMovedRaisedMy DadItalianRomeOperaAlabamaDenmarkCopenhagen Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.” FatherGrewGrew UpItalianHouseholdAdopted Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.
“My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.” FatherItalianSwissPeruviansAlaskans Author:Q'orianka Kilcher
“Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.” WantLoveFirstsMadeI CanTogetherFilmUsedMotherCoursesFatherLove YouBrotherLettersPressesDivorceMy BrotherItalianPregnantMamaPredator Author:Isabella Rossellini
“My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.” KindMotherNightFatherSidesDinnerSundayItalianCousinMy CousinSunday Night Author:Lea Michele