The only reason you should ever look down on someone, is to help them up.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Are you willing to nourish your heart with love

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Maybe I'm regular and the world needs to adjust?

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.