I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

By authentically sharing when things aren’t right you allow the people you care about to offer the support you may need.

The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

The only thing that follows work is results.

I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!