I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
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Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is.
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
I love being Italian.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.