Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.
Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.
Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.
When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.
I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.
If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach the right consistency. By then, the freshness is gone.
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
Marshal Henry: CCH? What's that? Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Cook County Hospital.
Dutch: [to Dillon] So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meatgrinder?
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.
I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
