I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.
It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.
People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal echoes of his or her next brilliant idea. The truth, for me at least, is that creativity is primarily the result of hard work and study.
Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing. . . I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it.
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.