“I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesActingRoles Author:Quentin Tarantino
“The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.” ThinkingWayAudience Author:Grimes
“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.” ThinkingYearsMayIdeasHateFunFiveRight NowCarefulBe GoodFive YearsGood IdeasLots Of MoneyHate Myself Author: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 a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."” PeopleYearsRememberSupportNew YorkCoupleOffersStandardsCirclesConventionalChefBad Friend Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.” ThinkingKindValuesMoralModernCapitalismEconomicsAssumingContactCategoriesCapitalistTabooInhibitionsErode Author:Michael Pollan
“My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.” WellsSpeakLanguagePerfectWorryDrinkGrammarWorry Less Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.” WritingTryingHelpingExistencePagesEditingUrgencyEditsRevisingSense Of UrgencyRereading Author: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 English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.” PeopleBookSpeakTeacherExcellentGreat MenHelpfulGood BookEnglish Teacher Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.” ThinkingWorldWantGuyPassionCommonGeniusSingingGuitarComparePlaying Guitar Author:Anthony Bourdain
“In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.” PeopleIfsWayInterestWay To Live Author:Anthony Bourdain