Gordon Ramsay Quotes

Recipes are overrated.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.

Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.

I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

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.

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

The inspiring thing is that people are often more experimental with their desserts than other courses. It allows me to be more creative and excite people.

I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous... and hungry.

I'd be a chef if I wasn't a musician, that's for sure.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.