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I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.

You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.

I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.