Alton Brown Quotes


26 quotes:

"I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. But I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, there was more of a chance that she'd say yes."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: College Quotes
"Well, Food Network has complete control, since they own everything. But the way I like to put it is this: If you don't like Good Eats, it's my fault."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"My feeling has always been that Good Eats would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"It's not perfect by any means, but I do think I wrote a pretty good argument for it being better than shoving your hand over the fire."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"In the end the French chef that nearly killed me became one of my best friends, and she could never quite understand how that happened."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes
"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."
Author: Brown Quotes Category: American Entertainer Quotes

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