Actors From Italy

"Always remember that the only riches we possess are the dreams we have as children. They are the fuel of our lives, the only force that pushes us to keep on going even when things have gone all wrong."

"Just work, work, work, even at the risk of making mistakes. And if and when you do make mistakes, and you do hurt someone, ask for forgiveness. Asking forgiveness and admitting you've made a mistake is the hardest thing of all. But if someone else does you good, remember it always. Showing gratitude is every bit as complicated."

"Every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you're experiencing is the last time."

"Trust yourself. Even if you're really, really scared, never let on that you are."

"[On his heir] My wife constantly tells me to stop looking for him, because he doesn't exist."

"[In response to a producer who had asked him to make a gay porn movie] I'm sorry but I like pussy. (from Lo Zoo 105 )"

"[In answer to the question of whether the penis is too big to scare women] "Rocco you hurt me, don't put it in, make it easy, do it slowly ...", but then they never tell me: "Take it off!""

"[In response to the question of what a woman must do in bed] Allow yourself, without limitation, with your partner."

"When I put the penis in the vulva of my partner, strangely she almost always makes a comparison with a dildo ... my chapel is too big not to enjoy. (from "The Zoo of 105")"

"Hard was what I wanted to do as a kid. I started in 1985 in Paris, when the videocassette was not yet "protagonist"; at the time, hard films were only shown in cinemas and it was therefore very difficult to know the producers of the films as it was "forbidden" to approach this world."

"I remember as a child I read the abandoned porn magazines on the edge of Ortona's country roads, thrown away by truck drivers."

"The hard has become a real industry; he thinks that ten thousand films are produced in the United States and as many in Europe."

"The working rhythms are exhausting, so much so that the average life of an actress is only six months; for an actor, on the other hand, if he can manage himself without being fooled by the initial euphoria and the consequent physical decline, he can be better ..."

"Certainly it is a work that is learned, one must be gifted and not only from the sexual point of view, an element that is not the most important; you have to be naturally taken to sex and then there's a technique to learn, since the scene doesn't last ten minutes and you can't reach orgasm whenever you want."

"In fact, the most difficult thing for a director like me is to find the right people; it is enough to put in a group a man or a woman or a wrong person that everything is compromised."

"Currently, in this phase of much work, it is the lack of men. There is a lot of demand for films but few are really able to stay on a set and perform this profession. Instead, there are so many girls, also because of the short professional life of an actress."

"The real problem in Italy is the wall on the subject: I worked with the French (the numbers one for the hard), the Americans, the Spaniards, the Germans but only the Italians make a thousand problems ..."

"I have always defined myself halfway between an animal and a man, however in full respect of others. I am a pure instinct and I act as such. Thinking of an animal, I love monkeys ..."

"A man, a Walter. (Luciana Littizzetto)"

"[About the experience in a gay porn movie] There were times, in my life, that it wasn't me who decided, but my body. I recently saw Shame, by Steve McQueen, and that movie represents my path. I, compared to many other actors, I never had problems shooting scenes where maybe my side was stimulated and I always found ridicule, believe me, all that "machismo"."

"Power is the highest expression of perversion."

"In my opinion, Boschi is a real pig, an animal. With her it would be fun. A Renzi like the "potato", but definitely not a large pig, is one that goes on the traditional. While Grillo is a big one, one who has a lot of fun with the gnocca."

"[On Marco Travaglio] I would see him in a porn but in a somewhat alternative genre, not the ones I would do. I don't see him very active on a sexual level, it seems more passive than active. WhileI like Sallusti , he is very animal, he has 100 percent hormones. Like Santanchè."

"Thanks mom, thanks dad for the bird you gave me. (from Lo Zoo 105 )"

"Apart from the president Berlusconi, who is always the top, I see Brunetta very active, I would like very much to be the protagonist of a porn. I would like to take Brunetta back with the cameras, I see it, he is always pissed off. We always use tall and sometimes dwarf models, he would be fun. Because you don't have to lower it and it becomes cool to take it back. It would be the number one, the number one, also because it comes from the school of Berlusconi. I'm sure it's not complex and doesn't hold back, because it has self-esteem that's important for a porn movie."

"Siamo angeli con un'ala soltanto e possiamo volare solo restando abbracciati."

"A lot of people, they think, ‘Oh, I’m only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.’ No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one. When you’re happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness."

"Miracles exist – you just have to believe it. A lot of the time when people pray to God they aren’t specific enough. I always tell people God is the god of details. You have to ask for the detail. So, you want a car – what kind of car do you want? Do you want a Cherokee, a Ford, a Chevy, a Bentley? An off-road vehicle? What about the trim and interior and the wheels? Be specific, then when you get something like that it will be no coincidence. I always prayed to God and that’s why I saw my life as a miracle."

"People come to Los Angeles and sell their soul every day. It’s sad. Here, the mentality is that everyone has a price. But I say no – no money can buy my soul. I’ve had so many offers that I didn’t think were proper and I’d say sorry, I don’t need it. I didn’t want to work my butt off and not be happy. I’ll always choose happiness and life over all the money in the world. Across my entire career, I had respect in the industry, because I was the one who never sold out."

"I myself regard the deaf people as superheroes, protectors of the visual language."

"Insolera’s efforts are equal to that of any Marvel star."

"Emilio Insolera’s “Sign Gene” gave the world its first deaf superheroes. But after writing, directing, producing and starring in the film himself, you might argue that Insolera is the one with the superpowers."

"The greatest merit of Sign Gene is to break the veil that separates the audiences from the mysterious and fascinating world of the deaf, just as it did at the party in the Odeon auditorium, all united from that silent toast, from that speaking animatedly without voice, from that mimic joy in which we – incapable of communicating – were the only outsiders, the unique dis/ables, mutes like fishes in a very capable and alien society. Yes, if wanted to subvert, Insolera made the centerpiece."

"Sign Gene's director (Emilio Insolera) met up with Tokyo Journal in Shibuya whilst en route to the NHK studios. The director turns out to be a lively character, one, perhaps unsurprisingly, with a sense for physical and situational humor."

"Italian language is not just sonore. It is also visual."

"You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow."

"I’ve often felt visual communicators have superhero-like qualities."

"“My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relationship with sign language. Kanji are usually concepts or ideas and then hiragana acts as a bridge for communication It’s the same with sign language: We use fingerspelling (spelling out the alphabet with your hands) between our conceptual signs."

"From the director to the international cast, all of them are from deaf families for generations, while the film industry usually entrusts these roles to audacious interpreters that end up being bad imitators of the Sign language."

"My deafness is my superpower."

"Our diversity is our superpower."

"The eye of the deaf sees what is invisible to the eye of the hearing."

"La gente mangia carne e pensa: "Diventerò forte come un bue". Dimenticando che il bue mangia erba. Mangiarsi con gusto un animale è assassinio premeditato a scopo di libidine. Digerirlo, occultamento di cadavere."

"In the past eight years, failed policies have caused our country to deteriorate. Our rights have been trampled, and our security threatened. We are weaker by almost every measure. We are on the wrong path. That is clear even to someone who was not even born here. I came to the United States from Rome, Italy in 1985. I followed all the rules, and finally became a naturalized citizen in 1996. Others who want to come to the U.S. to live and work should follow the same rules. We are a nation of laws for a reason. There should be no shortcuts for those who don’t want to pay or wait"

"I was never a politician. I care about my country. I put God first. For the last seven-and-a-half years, I’ve seen this country led by a leader that’s made mistakes. I spoke my mind about it. But because I’m in the industry, you can’t talk about that. The media and the liberals act the way they act: The will back up the president until the end. It’s been interesting. I’ve had fantastic directors who have said officially to my agents and managers they will never hire me again. They will never even see me for projects. That’s unfair."

"I think this country allows you freedom of speech. Anybody should be allowed to say whatever they want. When you’re in my business, you can’t talk about [conservative] politics. You just can’t. You’re attacked viciously in a way that I’ve never been attacked before."

"Impressionism is at the root of all modern art, because it was the first movement that managed to free itself from preconceived ideas, and because it changed not only the way life was depicted but the way life was seen."

"L’uomo insigne non è mai apprezzato nè in vita, nè in patria."

"Le apparenze spesse volte convincono ed ingannano."

"Eh! uomini, slate giusti. Prima soccorrete, e poi consigliate."