People Quotes by Anthony Bourdain

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

— Anthony Bourdain

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

— Anthony Bourdain

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

— Anthony Bourdain

If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

— Anthony Bourdain

Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear…

— Anthony Bourdain

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

— Anthony Bourdain

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

— Anthony Bourdain

Anything that improves people's expectations of a meal is good for the world. Anything that weans even one kid or one adult…

— Anthony Bourdain

I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body…

— Anthony Bourdain

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize…

— Anthony Bourdain

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you…

— Anthony Bourdain

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the…

— Anthony Bourdain

I can't do exercises regularly because my schedule changes from day to day. I'm okay with hurting myself, like I'll lift something…

— Anthony Bourdain

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I…

— Anthony Bourdain

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or…

— Anthony Bourdain

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try…

— Anthony Bourdain

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or…

— Anthony Bourdain

We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show.…

— Anthony Bourdain

I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm…

— Anthony Bourdain

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who…

— Anthony Bourdain

I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls…

— Anthony Bourdain

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud…

— Anthony Bourdain

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with…

— Anthony Bourdain

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write…

— Anthony Bourdain

Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better…

— 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 listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent…

— Anthony Bourdain

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a…

— Anthony Bourdain

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect…

— Anthony Bourdain

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely…

— Anthony Bourdain

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas…

— Anthony Bourdain

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered.…

— Anthony Bourdain

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant…

— Anthony Bourdain

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to…

— Anthony Bourdain

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history.…

— Anthony Bourdain

One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm…

— Anthony Bourdain

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're…

— Anthony Bourdain