Theresa May Quotes

How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

I've been really picky about the sort of characters that I want to represent.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

My boyfriend's a real chef, so I steer clear of him when I'm in the kitchen - I wouldn't like him to catch me chopping an onion.

I don't believe I dislike any ingredient.

You look at Taylor Swift, and every 'i' is dotted, every story is finished.

I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle.

I have never, ever met a performer that was a stickler to critical moments and moves as they fit. Savage was a perfectionist.

I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I'm a perfectionist and I always want to do the best as possible.

I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make sure to put it back in the exact right place.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The real value in everything you do is in the details.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks won't tell you that. They will say make it and it will come out perfectly. They should tell you you're probably going to screw it up the first 10 times you make it.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.