I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. ….

A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off ….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut….

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent..

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?.

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food..

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it..

I found a movie called “Light in the Piazza.” I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could ma….

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stag….

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for free….

A fool and his money are soon married..

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort o….

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood..

In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the differen….

Necessity is the author of change..

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian….