Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
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.
The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.
Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
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.
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.