"Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients."

"Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food."

"Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support."

"Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant."

"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."

"Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?"

"I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you."

"More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did."