Food Quotes

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

~ Chris Noth

I don't have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs - potatoes and rice - but I'll try and pack it in because as I'm burning so much energy. I have to see food as an energy source.

~ Anthony Joshua

My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.

~ Donald Driver

I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering dropped off delicious food at my trailer.

~ Cobie Smulders

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

~ Jose Andres

High-quality food is better for your health.

~ Michael Pollan

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

~ Michael Pollan

I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.

~ Michael Keaton

If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food choices each day as part of a spectrum, then you are more likely to feel free and empowered.

~ Dean Ornish

For me, I just like to cut out bread. I like to keep the good carbs in my diet - I love pasta and Italian food - but I try to eat just that on the weekends and cut out carbs during the week.

~ Ashley Tisdale

I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.

~ Cobie Smulders

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

~ Sienna Miller

I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.

~ Andre Ward

I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.

~ Yami Gautam

I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.

~ Penelope Cruz

I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

~ Rachel Nichols

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.

~ Suzanne Somers

I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes... fat. I got skinny on fat and realized I would never have to diet again.

~ Suzanne Somers

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.

~ Suzanne Somers

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

~ Amy Sedaris

I grew up with a Mediterranean diet, so I like clean, simple food. But if there's pizza on a menu, I always end up ordering it. I can't resist it.

~ Sara Sampaio

I hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it's less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

~ Mike Colter

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

~ Amber Heard

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

~ Ed Koch

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

~ Lauren Graham

I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.

~ Lauren Graham

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

~ Bobby Flay

As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.

~ Daniel Humm

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

~ David Perlmutter

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

~ Mark Hyman

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

~ Portia De Rossi

Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.

~ David H. Murdock

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

~ Jennifer Ellison

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

~ Valerie Bertinelli

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

~ Warren Cuccurullo

I work out like a maniac, three times more than anything I did in the past. I am off carbs, salt, sweets, and live on a fish diet. And I promise I am not going to indulge in food again. See, when I was 49 years old, I was fine, but the moment I touched 50, I felt that something within me had changed drastically. My metabolic rate dropped.

~ Sanjay Dutt

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

~ Joy Behar

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

~ Joely Fisher