Chris Cubas Quotes

You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

Oh yeah, the 'Chef' movie was awesome.

I am a very funny guy.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

I still do standup.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

I've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

If I find something funny or something that kind of cracks me up, I'll get up on stage. I don't care what situation I'm in or what media I'm in: I'm gonna say it.

In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.