Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones. "

Anthony Bourdain

Related Quotes:

" I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. "

Anthony Bourdain

" If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get. "

Anthony Bourdain

" You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef. "

Anthony Bourdain

" In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. "

Anthony Bourdain

" The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you. "

Anthony Bourdain

" My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. "

Anthony Bourdain

" To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside. "

Anthony Bourdain

" There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. "

Anthony Bourdain

" My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry. "

Anthony Bourdain

" If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. "

Anthony Bourdain