To be famous, you’ve to do big movies but to improve yourself as an actor and for your well-being, you need to do smaller films so that you will learn through them

You need to spend most of your precious time finding great projects and scripts. They’re not hidden somewhere, but you need to struggle hard to get them.

But they also confuse two distinct occupations: cooks and chefs. Cooks do it at home for love. Chefs do it in public for money. Dinner parties are karaoke cheffery.

My wife can’t cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

If I convert, it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

On the personal front, obviously, you know, this industry fragments a lot of families. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with my children, teaching them how to cook early on in life has brought them closer to my industry. So if they’re gonna follow it as a career, they know how to cook.

If everyone could just cook properly I wouldn’t have a problem.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

You’re not a quitter? You’re not a fucking cook either.

When you cook under pressure, you trade perfection.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Because You Didn’t F****** Cook It!

You guys cook like grandpas fuck.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man’s heart. Mae West: Funny, too, ’cause I don’t know how to cook.

It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.