The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings. . . . I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?
[ Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress]. She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level.
My first movie was 'Diner. ' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies. ' I did really good work.
The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play. . . . There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.
If you look closely at some scenes in Diner, my eyes look like Dracula's.
I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do
When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?
The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.
Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.
I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.
