Daniel Boulud Quotes

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

I am a fantastic cook. It's my great passion.

I know how to cut meat, yeah. I know how to cook, basically.

I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

I've never cooked a great meal.

I don't have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I'd much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

I love cooking. People seem to enjoy my food, but I absolutely love it. I'm one of those people who will buy a cookery book and take it to bed and read it.

I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

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.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

My grandfather was a great chef.

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.

I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.

I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he does salmon, and his apple pie for dessert is delicious.

I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.