I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

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.

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

A gentleman can live through anything.