Acting Quote by Andre Simon

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

— Craig Claiborne

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that…

— Marco Pierre White

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

— Dominique Crenn

Cooking is just a vehicle to express yourself, like painting and acting... The reason why we're cooking is not because we want to put…

— Dominique Crenn

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

— Alton Brown

A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.

— Ching He Huang

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

— Laurie Colwin

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

— Andre Simon

A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you…

— Paul Rankin

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics,…

— Julia Child

The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

— Tom Colicchio