Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I think I've learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

Every single fighter I've ever been in with, including the guys who beat me, I have hurt.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.