Ferran Adria quote: "Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food."

When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them fe...
FERRAN ADRIA

In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year...
FERRAN ADRIA

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the lan...
FERRAN ADRIA

If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like bl...
FERRAN ADRIA

I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
FERRAN ADRIA

Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only ...
FERRAN ADRIA

I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
FERRAN ADRIA

I don't worry about the things I can't change.
FERRAN ADRIA

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I'...
FERRAN ADRIA

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the re...
FERRAN ADRIA

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I'...
FERRAN ADRIA

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
FERRAN ADRIA

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it'...
FERRAN ADRIA

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job becaus...
FERRAN ADRIA

Just to eat is a gift.
FERRAN ADRIA

I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I...
FERRAN ADRIA

For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double t...
FERRAN ADRIA

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of t...
FERRAN ADRIA

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat...
FERRAN ADRIA

Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy?...
FERRAN ADRIA

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest...
FERRAN ADRIA

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by ...
FERRAN ADRIA

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
FERRAN ADRIA

I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.
FERRAN ADRIA

When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
FERRAN ADRIA

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been a...
FERRAN ADRIA

I was always fascinated by this place. I always thought it was mysterious.
PATRICK MOORE

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

It was a lot of fun on the set. I had the most fun making that movie out of all of them. I'm sur...
JASON MEWES

I thought it was a good play by Red. Everybody else looked at him like he was an outcast, but i thou...
DEMARRE CARROLL

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
MAUREEN O'HARA

I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weir...
JOHNNY DEPP

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
EMILIE AUTUMN

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was ...
JASON BIGGS

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of...
ANNA KENDRICK

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutt...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and ...
PETER CAPALDI

I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.
JONATHAN NOLAN

I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
ERIC RIPERT

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated b...
REGGIE WATTS

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or pro...
LEVEN RAMBIN

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pit...
BILLY ECKSTINE

I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As ...
JACOB WREN

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don'...
MICHELLE GAGNON

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a goo...
JUICY J

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.
BRENDON URIE

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but a...
MAGGIE Q

I'm starting to get old. I want to eat some hamburgers and just relax.
CHARLIE HUNNAM

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a w...
PATRICK MACNEE

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I go...
LANCE HENRIKSEN

We tried not to be too crazy when I came in by making a lot of changes all at once. It was just a gr...
DAVE SYLVESTER

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a m...
PETER CUSHING

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
RAIN

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
RANDY QUAID

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's c...
JENNY MCCARTHY

People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
AARON ECKHART

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t...
STEVEN ADAMS

I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to ...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON

I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'...
TRISHA YEARWOOD

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business ...
RONALD PERELMAN

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's los...
SADE ADU

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and...
ALISON BRIE

I found all I wanted to do was give Damian perfect, unadulterated food.
LIZ HURLEY

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what ...
MACKENZIE DAVIS

I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making fo...
LIV TYLER

Was it toughness? Competitiveness? Work ethic? Focus? Turns out it was all those things plus, of cou...
BOB HENRIQUEZ

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
PRABAL GURUNG

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know...
SCOTT TUROW

Everyone has an 'I thought Elliott was crazy' story.
ELLIOTT BISNOW

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that t...
BOY GEORGE

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect...
JAMES CAMERON

You try to hide it from them, but they know ? they hear the crying. Plus, I was always making trips ...
LAUREEN BENAFIELD

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m...
NORA EPHRON

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the...
MARTIN HENDERSON

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perf...
JAKE DELHOMME

Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutiona...
PAUL STAMETS

I don't eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days ...
JIMMY KIMMEL

I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.
CHRISSY TEIGEN

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d...
ALAN JACKSON

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
MATTHEW VAUGHN

I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across t...
CHARLIE COX

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control ho...
HANYA YANAGIHARA

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, an...
DREW DAYWALT

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical play...
GEORGE HICKENLOOPER

He was getting some shots, but the thing I noticed was he finished a few of them around the glass.
JAMIE DIXON

I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
JACK LOWDEN

He was fining them for every little thing and it was getting crazy. That's why he wasn't liked.
LANCE WILLIAMS

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements ...
ABBIE CORNISH

Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

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