Anthony Bourdain Quotes

Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.

When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

Whenever we create dishes, we work very carefully and ask ourselves, 'Is there anything on the dish that really doesn't make the dish better?' Then we eliminate that. We try to stay very focused on really showcasing everything on the plate so nothing gets lost.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.

Salute even the customers in places where alcohol is served.

Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it's 75-25, sometimes it's 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that's how you support each other.

A lot of people who like sushi don't really like raw fish or seaweed.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

I have respect for therapists in general, because they hear so many stories. It's a lot to hold and take in.

You have to come to work from a place of love.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

You always have to make sure your husband knows he isn't going to be replaced.

Love - keep on doing it.

Because I feel as actors we are required to be vulnerable, it is a part of our job. So the space that you are being vulnerable in should respect that, otherwise it is not worth it.

My idea about being in a relationship is like it's a whole other form of creation.

I'm sure I tried being mean at one point, and I don't think it worked. It's too much work.

Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.