Tomato Quotes

American movies to me - and, I mean, I`ve said this before a million times - are becoming more and more homogeneous because the marketing objective - and marketing now plays such a major role in movies that it almost obliterates everything else - the marketing objective is the lowest common denominator. "You can`t put that in; let`s put the car chase, let`s put the sex scene, let`s put the fight in, let`s get them back together, they end up happily, they walk off into the sun..." So that there`s a formulaic predictability to American movies. That, allied with the cynicism of the way movies are put together - product placement and spin-offs and toys and all kinds of crap that, you know, have nothing to do with the telling of stories - they`ve turned American movies into McMovies. So that when the movie-goer gets his movie, it`s like a hamburger: he doesn`t want a piece of aubergine in there; he wants his onion, his tomato, his hamburger and his bun. And he doesn`t want the bun hard, he wants it soft. And he wants it in two minutes.

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I`ve heard of everything from chicken soup to baking soda. Tomato juice is a big one, and that`s actually not good for a dog to drink. None of these work, and, in fact, they only serve to make the dog go to the bathroom more often.

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook`s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

It`s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Daiginjos tend to be the cleanest and the fullest at the same time. For those kind of sakes, you don`t want a Western-type sauce based on acids. No vinaigrettes, and no tomato sauces. The classic pairing is fish, especially a rich, fleshy fish -- John Dory, halibut, salmon, hamachi. Depending on the style, daiginjo can go with poultry.