[44] "The part-Italian actor defended the parts, saying: "The characters I play are real. So they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters." His citizenship ceremony was postponed after objections from US-based group the Order of Sons of Italy. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, he said: "I'm part Italian, part Dutch, part French, part German and part Irish, but I probably identify more with my Italian side than any other parts. "Italy is such a great and wonderful country, I'm very proud and honoured to be asked to be a citizen.""
bestofsicily.com
"Sota-ajan yhteistyö sisilialaissyntyisen Salvatore "Lucky" Lucianon kanssa teki liittoutuneiden tunkeutumisen Sisiliaan helpommaksi kuin se muussa tapauksessa oli ollut. Rautamaaherran toimeenpanemat Il Ducen lait olivat tehneet suurimmasta osasta mafiosoja Amerikan sympatisoijia tai vähintään ainakin fasismin vastustajia" The Mafiabestofsicily.com ista
[11] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"Ethnicity: Italian-American"
census.gov
census.gov
Brittingham, Angela, and G. Patricia De La Cruz: Ancestry 2004. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau. Viitattu 21.10.2009. (englanniksi)
[35] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "he's Italian and Scottish" [36] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian. Which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
[19] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "What she really is is a Philadelphia-born, blue-collar, Italian-American Catholic with a knack for flaunting the rules."
everyculture.com
Pozzetta, George: ITALIAN AMERICANS Everyculture.com. Viitattu 30.11.2006.
fametracker.com
[27] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "That Italian-American actress."
[30] "And also, as an Italian-American woman - which I'm very proud to be - I like that in The Sopranos you come from one side of the block, I come from the other."
[34] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
[17] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "fellow Italian-American singer-actor"
indieking.com
[31] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "floppy-thin Irish-Italian"
interfaithfamily.com
[4] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) ""Everyone thinks I'm Jewish", says actor Jason Biggs. The 23-year-old star of American Pie, Loser and American Pie 2 is actually part Italian Catholic from New Jersey."
[3] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Although Italian-American by heritage, she said she had faked her way through the Venice festival by "speaking English with an Italian accent."
[26] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love." Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first."
[28] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Stefani was brought up in Anaheim, Kalifornia, one of four children in a close-knit Irish-Italian, Roman Catholic family."
mytelevision.com
[10] "Her (Real) Heritage: "I'm Greek, Italian and Jewish. In TV Guide they wrote that I was French, Greek and Jewish. I am mostly Greek. I don't know where French came from."
[2] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Actor Nicolas Cage will be the first inductee into the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) new "Hall of Fame""
[40] "As an Italian who has become an American citizen, I felt profoundly embarrassed ..."
oprah.com
[35] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "he's Italian and Scottish" [36] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian. Which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
[13] "You want to respect and honor [the real-life person] as much as you can while giving it your own spin in that unique situation", said Quinto, whose ethnicity is half-Irish and half-Italian."
[45] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Yes, but I am an Italian man and that never will pass my lips. We still see each other every once in a while."
rollingstone.com
[42] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me."
[41] "Although the Italian side of his lineage is what he is most recognised for, Travolta himself sees it differently. He told Plus Magazine recently, "The emotional, romantic, whimsical part of me is Irish. Spiritually, I probably feel more like an Irishman - that's where my heart is." He went on, "The feelings I have for food and dance is probably the Italian side of me. I have the sexuality of an Italian but I think the Irish are very sexy too. I grew up in an all-Irish neighbourhood and it was as sexual as anything.""
sptimes.com
[9] "I'm half-Italian, so personally, I consider that Latina . . . and in Spy Kids I also play Spanish", she said in a July interview. "What's interesting is that Karen Sisco in the book was blond-haired (and non-Hispanic) . . . and originally, Nicole Kidman was going to do the movie. My feeling about this Karen Sisco, is that her mother was Cuban and her father was not."
[1] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "The youngest member of an Italian family teeming with artistic gifts, she was born Talia Rose Coppola on April 25, 1946 - plunging her into an environment dominated by masculinity, especially a masculine struggle for achievement. Both of her parents were first-generation Italian-Americans, the children of immigrants who left Italy for the United States around the turn of the century."
telegraph.co.uk
[48] "Hazlewood recognised that there was too much Doris Day in Nancy and not enough Janis Joplin. Here was a girl, after all, who left college in the Sixties "to marry and have sex because I was raised Catholic and Italian"."
thestar.com
[22] "Italian-American scion of a Connecticut family..." [23] "Given his half-Italian father, Bart Giamatti... Irish mother, Toni, a high-school teacher"
timesonline.co.uk
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
[43] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"“We’re both (Lady Gaga & Madonna) Italian-American women, we both started out in the New York underground scene — and we both became famous when we dyed our hair blonde.” "
tv.com
[8] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"Is of Italian, Norwegian, English and Native American descent."
tvnz.co.nz
[24] "The National Italian American Foundation in Washington DC, recently honored LeBlanc for his contribution to the world of entertainment."
[1] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "The youngest member of an Italian family teeming with artistic gifts, she was born Talia Rose Coppola on April 25, 1946 - plunging her into an environment dominated by masculinity, especially a masculine struggle for achievement. Both of her parents were first-generation Italian-Americans, the children of immigrants who left Italy for the United States around the turn of the century."
[2] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Actor Nicolas Cage will be the first inductee into the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) new "Hall of Fame""
[3] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Although Italian-American by heritage, she said she had faked her way through the Venice festival by "speaking English with an Italian accent."
[4] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) ""Everyone thinks I'm Jewish", says actor Jason Biggs. The 23-year-old star of American Pie, Loser and American Pie 2 is actually part Italian Catholic from New Jersey."
[5] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Rachael is half Italian and refers to herself as Italian."
[7] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "I book myself. I don’t have an agent"
[8] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"Is of Italian, Norwegian, English and Native American descent."
[11] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"Ethnicity: Italian-American"
[12] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "The olive comes from my being half-Italian. And I'm a quarter Irish and a quarter Eastern Bloc country."
[14] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Is half Italian-Catholic and half Russian-Jewish."
[16] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Kristian is 100 percent Italian. Her grandparents hail from Sicily and the Calabria region of southern Italy."
[17] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "fellow Italian-American singer-actor"
[19] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "What she really is is a Philadelphia-born, blue-collar, Italian-American Catholic with a knack for flaunting the rules."
[22] "Italian-American scion of a Connecticut family..." [23] "Given his half-Italian father, Bart Giamatti... Irish mother, Toni, a high-school teacher"
[26] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "I lived on the edge of a forest. We had a very big Italian family with lots of love." Perhaps his Italian great-grandfather's interest in commedia dell'arte had a genetic influence on Ruffalo's choice of careers, but not at first."
[27] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "That Italian-American actress."
[28] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Stefani was brought up in Anaheim, Kalifornia, one of four children in a close-knit Irish-Italian, Roman Catholic family."
[29] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "we found that there was a lot to like about this Italian beauty..."
[31] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "floppy-thin Irish-Italian"
[34] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
[35] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "he's Italian and Scottish" [36] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "KING: Who had the chin, mom or dad? J. LENO: I guess that's from the Scotch side of the family. Yeah, that would probably be more of the Scotch side, my mom. My mom was Scottish. My father was Italian. Which is a wonderful area for comedy as a kid..."
[37] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "From Connie Francis to Madonna: Italian American Female Singers Come of Age"
[42] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me."
[43] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"“We’re both (Lady Gaga & Madonna) Italian-American women, we both started out in the New York underground scene — and we both became famous when we dyed our hair blonde.” "
[45] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Yes, but I am an Italian man and that never will pass my lips. We still see each other every once in a while."
[47] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive) "Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American"
[49] (Arkistoitu – Internet Archive)"Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, and Ann Bancroft are Italian American."
