Bartending Quotes

I worked the bar business in Fort Lauderdale.

I ended up moving to Miami and bartending, but the party atmosphere is a black hole down there. People party all the time, and if you're working in the industry, you're sleeping all day and at the club all night, day after day.

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

The art helps, between the acting gigs. I feel that if I can sing in Mamma Mia! then goddammit, I can hang a few paintings, give people lots of cocktails, and have a good time.

I'd like to go out for a cocktail... or seven.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

It's never too early for a cocktail.

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.

I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

Truth is, I love to play bartender and assist my husband at the BBQ.

I worked in pubs when I was younger. My nickname was Morticia.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?