I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.
Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.
I didn't understand myself well enough be an ambassador to my world, to inspire people to want to cook, to inspire young people to want to come into my industry.
I wasn't manufactured. I was cut from the cloth of the very old world of gastronomy. There was no such thing as celebrity chefs, chefs were trained and I like to think that I still represent those old values from that world and the opportunities that I am offered I often say no to.
I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.
You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone's having something different, you have a 15-second window to get it all together so no one at the table waits.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?
You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.