You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.

I'm very inspired by a lot of things from the past, from Cher to Diana Ross.