casanova
Speech parts
1. casanova - Noun
2. Casanova - Proper noun
Meaning
any man noted for his amorous adventures
an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
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[Malipiero's advice to Casanova. ] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
You know, Fellini, I believe that, in my life, I have been more Casanova than you. I made the calculation a year or so ago that I have had 10,000 women since the age of thirteen and a half. It wasn't at all a vice. I have not the slightest sexual vice, but I have the need to communicate.
I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.
I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.