Culinary Dreams Quotes

Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work on a set that looked like a theater; I wanted a kitchen of the sort every chef dreams about.

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

My journey was never hard; it just happened. From the second I held a knife, from the second I was in culinary school, it's all felt too good to be true. 'This cannot be my job, my life. Somebody has to be kidding with me!'

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

I wanted to be a chef; I became a hero.

I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we'll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we'll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.

Out of culinary school, I worked as a pastry cook in amazing restaurants for years. I ended up leaving the pastry cook scene because, though I loved the industry, the restaurants and the chefs I worked for so much, I had to be honest with myself. I was never going to be them.

I feel like a princess with a knife. I've wanted to be an Iron Chef forever.

When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there every Sunday after church.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.