I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Maman’s life was an unfinished book. Celeste had to discover the ending, and then she could close the cover for ever.

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.