“The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am ...” — Alton Brown Quote

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

I grill, therefore I am.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.

Leipzig, that was a frustrating period.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.