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People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

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

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

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

The secret is that I am Italian.