Maria Sharapova Quotes

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

A lot of people who come to my restaurant bring their parents over because it brings back good memories.

That's why I love wine, it opens people up, brings people together, and it's an important part of so many of my favourite memories.

Some of the best dishes I can remember are from my childhood. Sometimes, whenever I want to feel like a kid again, I just whip them up for the family.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

In my family and among Korean-Americans, there just is no occasion that people would get together without bibimbap. It's something that people eat when they're wanting to celebrate or have a good time with friends.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

When I smell pho, I just automatically think of my mom. All these nostalgic feelings and memories come rushing through my head.

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindles, affairs of state—everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.