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A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a chef. I'd love to open a restaurant.

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.