Gordon Ramsay Quotes

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

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.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

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

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

My grandfather was a great chef.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

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

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

I used to be a chef.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.

It is so nice to talk to someone that has a passion for food and family.

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.