I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.