Hidetoshi Nakata Quotes

The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.

The must haves at a Super Bowl party are women, music and some chips and dips.

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

Ladies be seated, the party has only begun.

I always suggest something fast and simple so you have more time to share with friends; and when we think of the ultimate food to serve for a football game, only one thing comes to mind - wings!

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

In Newport, we serve cheese or bacon-wrapped water chestnuts.

The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

I'm all about simple appetizers when it comes to the holidays.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack [pistachios]. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

The more the merrier.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

I'm a pescatarian, so I don't eat red meat or pork. So my dinners usually consist of seafood in some way. And maybe cookies after!