What I Ate in One Year Quotes

“Yes, hope is hard to find, but it can often be found at the table. And tables are easy to build.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“In so many attempts to save time, so many other things are wasted.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Eating a simple dish gives one clarity. Pasta with butter and cheese laughs in the face of our complex lives.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“The third is that we die and find that death is a table resplendently set with an extraordinary meal for us and all those we've ever loved to share for the rest of eternity”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“However, food is just there. A beautiful, varied thing waiting to bring satiety and solace and offer hope while death and arithmetic haunt me.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Home-cooked food strengthens our bonds when we are together, keeps us connected when we are apart, and sustains the memory of us when we have passed away.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I am a soup lover. To me soup may be the greatest culinary invention. It can be made with two ingredients or two hundred twenty-two ingredients. It can be served hot or cold. It can be cooked fast or slow. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It can be vegetarian, vegan, paleo, pescatarian, or carnivorian. It can be simple or complex. It comforts, it soothes, it refreshes, and it restores. Soup is life in a pot.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Never give up. Especially when it comes to soup.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Manhattan. The city. New York, New York. The city so nice they named it twice.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Suddenly it seemed that the year had passed very quickly, even though during the midst of it there were times when it seemed it might never end. But it's always that way. It's like heading to a place you've never been to before. Because you don't know where you're going, the trip seems so long. But when you return to that place again, the same trip will seem so much shorter because now you know where you're going. Or at least you think you do.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Every day they are changing, but you don't see it until suddenly one moment you do. And then you feel like you missed something. But you didn't. You were right there. It was just imperceptible. It's the reason we mark our children's heights on a wall, just to have a record of their growth. If we don't have this physical/visual record to refer to, suddenly one day we're shocked to find them bending down to kiss us goodbye.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Felicity is in NYC for a week. I know she has work to do and is doing it more brilliantly than ever, but I hate her not being around. Huge parts of life are empty without her. I love being with the kids alone, but I love it more when we are all together. She makes everything better.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I love clothing as much as I love food and always like to dress not only well, but appropriately for whatever the occasion might be. I loathe the fact that our world has become so casual. So many people wear the same thing for a night out on the town or to the theater that they wear around the house, which most often is a t-shirt and jeans or even sweatpants.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Obviously I love going to restaurants, trying different dishes or old staples in the hands of a new chef, but I know that after a few too many meals out in a row I long to be home I can eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it. And besides all that, I miss the actual art of cooking. Choosing the recipes, finding the produce, prepping it, cooking it, serving it, and eating it. The satisfaction and joy that those simple acts bring is made even greater when what is served is shared. Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“The hardest part of being an actor is finding that family/work balance. This is true in so many professions, but it's the distance apart for long periods of time and the constant changing of shooting schedules and locations that make it even more difficult....But fundamentally I believe that children want and need consistency of place and people. It keeps them grounded and secure. I chose this profession, they did not, and therefore it's up to me to travel back and forth for as often as possible. That said, having them there for those few days, my strange soulless apartment was transformed into a home. It was my happiest time in Rome.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“It must seem that the dish came into being because it was just meant to be. Like true love. Unfortunately, neither is easy to find. Nonetheless, we continue the search.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I am a soup lover. To me soup may be the greatest culinary invention. It can be made with two ingredients or two hundred twenty-two ingredients. It can be served hot or cold. It can be cooked fast or slow. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It can be vegetarian, vegan, paleo, pescatarian, or carnivorian. It can be simple or complex. It comforts, it soothes, it refreshes, and it restores. Soup is life in a pot.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year:

“What’s important is they learn to love home cooking.
Strengthens our bounds when we are together.
Keeps us connected when we are apart.
Sustains the memory of us when we’ve passed away.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Rich, deep, dark, joyful, melancholic, comforting; a flawless liquid fermented in history and myth.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year:

“The place was packed with shoppers buying books for Christmas presents, which was a reassuring and literal sign that literature is indeed a gift.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...the idea of communing through food is beautiful and something to be celebrated.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“They have their day jobs but cull from what they cultivate to create the basis of their diet. I would like the kids to experience that. Not such a bad way to live.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Human beings need one another because we can give each other so much, especially hope, but we often forget this... We also need the earth and what it gives us, but we often forget this too... Yet the two are inextricably linked. Communing with one another with what is given to us by the earth, meaning its bounty, is one of the most crucial components of the life cycle. This communion can ameliorate, unite, elate, stave off conflicts, and create long-lasting bonds of friendship and love.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Time cooking with someone you love is time well spent.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...his characters are so unhappy because they all live the way they think they should live but not how the want to live, and how their ideas of life get in the way of action and truth”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Movement is life affirming and life extending”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...so I went alone. (I'm so brave.)”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“And besides all that, I miss the actual act of cooking. Choosing the recipes, finding the produce, prepping it, cooking it, serving it, and eating it. The satisfaction and joy that those simple acts bring is made even greater when what is served is shared. Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“It's like the second performance of a play that's gone well on opening night. Any attempt to repeat the same performance fails dismally because it's an idea of a memory”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Quite simply, I am drawn to the past more than I am the future... I am physical kinesthetic, tactile. Through touch, I take in information... I want to dig a hole in the earth and find the remains of something that was once something of importance, no matter how minor, to someone many years ago and imagine what their life was like.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year