Restaurants Quotes

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

I'm a private person; I stick to my neighbourhood and eat in my little restaurants.

As for restaurants, I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.