Anthony Bourdain

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

— Anthony Bourdain

“I learned to recognize failure.”

— Anthony Bourdain

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

— Anthony Bourdain

Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

— Anthony Bourdain

It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot on TV.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

— Anthony Bourdain

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

— Anthony Bourdain

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

— Anthony Bourdain

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

— Anthony Bourdain

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

— Anthony Bourdain

I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

— Anthony Bourdain

“He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in…

— Anthony Bourdain

It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

— Anthony Bourdain

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as…

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment…

— Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from…

— Anthony Bourdain

The ingredients of a hamburger seldom vary. It's a percentage of fat to lean meat, add salt and prepare and that's it.…

— Anthony Bourdain

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

— Anthony Bourdain

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with…

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my…

— Anthony Bourdain

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied…

— Anthony Bourdain

“you'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a…

— Anthony Bourdain

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an…

— Anthony Bourdain

I've been cooking for a nine-year-old and her friends for the better part of seven or eight years. It's how I cook…

— Anthony Bourdain

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of…

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without…

— Anthony Bourdain

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of…

— Anthony Bourdain

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms. This isn't a hard call. They let you see the bathrooms. If the…

— Anthony Bourdain

“We had only the bass, some butter and a lemon to work with, but we cooked that sucker up under the tiny…

— Anthony Bourdain

“If experience teaches us anything, it’s that the very last thing a television audience wants to hear or be reminded of is…

— Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become…

— Anthony Bourdain

“As Chang’s answer has almost everything to do with work and little with play, a few days later I ask Peter Meehan…

— Anthony Bourdain

“And, well, for most of my life I’d been way too far up my own ass to be of any use to…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Who drinks here? Office workers, jackets off, tie still on—or the reverse: jacket on, tie off. Restaurant help, nipping out for a…

— Anthony Bourdain

“One in eight Cambodians – as many as 2 million people – were killed during the Khmer Rouge’s campaign to eradicate their…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never…

— Anthony Bourdain