Jason Mitchell Quotes

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.

If a restaurant kitchen is your office, Nom is for you.

I know my way around the kitchen. I like to cook, so I can fry an egg. I guess I could be a fry cook at Bob's Big Boy or something, or maybe a sous chef somewhere a little nicer. I would like to do that. I think I can probably pick that up pretty quickly.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

I look back and nearly all of my early jobs were in food.

I was a busboy, a waiter, a manager, a sommelier... like... all of it from a family-run Polish restaurant, with, like, grandmas in the basement hand-making pierogies, to working at Bond Street for a while. I've done it all.

I absolutely love the restaurant industry.

I used to be a chef.

The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

I cook chicken for a living.