Food Quotes
“A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'”
“When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.”
-- Steve Guttenberg
“I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.”
-- Susan George
“Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?”
-- Sade Adu
“We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.”
-- Tom Colicchio
“I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.”
-- Warren Cuccurullo
“I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.”
-- Gail Simmons