The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.

I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.

Yes I still take my baths all day long. Theyre meditative. I have three a day.

Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

One of the hardest decisions youll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

I'm a versatile guy. I'm a third-down back.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

I never blame myself when Im not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up I change bats.