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Padma Lakshmi

(1970) Actor India

103 quotes in 549 categories

Padma Lakshmi talks about how her mood changes with what she gets done each day, laughing about it. She treats food like a personal flag—she jokes about a ‘church of fried chicken,’ plans dinner while lunching, and says she’ll eat or wear anything. She also shares why she wants people to know about endometriosis and how wine feels like a romance.

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Padma Lakshmi is an actor from India, best known for Love, loss, and what we ate.

Quick Facts About Padma Lakshmi

Born: September 1, 1970
Nationality: India
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Love, loss, and what we ate
Spouse: Salman Rushdie

About Padma Lakshmi

Padma Parvati Lakshmi is an American television host, model, author, entrepreneur, and activist. She rose to prominence by hosting the Bravo cooking competition program Top Chef (2006–2023). Lakshmi is the creator, host, and executive producer of the docuseries Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, which premiered in 2020 on Hulu. For her work with these two series, as an executive producer and as a host, she has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Quotes by Padma Lakshmi

“My grandfather was a closet feminist. So,”

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I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Strength

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Even the fried chicken is great cold.

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I don't look at ratings until somebody tells me.

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I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.

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I really love fried chicken.

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Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Cities

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“The heart knows no pain sharper than love’s arrow.”

Love

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I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Bangles

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“I cannot remember what we talked about except that we never stopped talking.”

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“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done”

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“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done today,” she said, laughing.”

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I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

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I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what…

Career

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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

Body

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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Feminism

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“Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the…

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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna…

Bologna

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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion…

Clothes

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“The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.”

Life

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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that…

Feminine

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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even…

Atheist

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I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like…

Boast

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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of…

Flowers

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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an…

Chef

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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm…

Adults

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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If…

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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out.…

Best friend

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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other…

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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep…

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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole…

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“food has played a central role not only in my professional but also in my emotional life, in all of my dealings…

Cravings

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“When there is little you can do, you do what you can.”

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“Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.”

Immigrants

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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

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I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman.

Beautiful

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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Detox

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I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

Career

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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

Chef

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Padma Lakshmi by topic

Food (30) Time (10) Thinking (10)