Top Chef Quotes
Tom Colicchio: [to the bottom three contestants] If I could really get rid of two of you I probably would, um, matter of fact , all three.
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Gail Simmons: Stephen looked at us like we were crazy! His Japanese infused, confused tamale?
Tom Colicchio: He's just getting over-creative, and it's just getting in the way. I think he gets too wrapped up in the dogma of cooking.
Tom Colicchio: He's just getting over-creative, and it's just getting in the way. I think he gets too wrapped up in the dogma of cooking.
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Harold: [about being paired with Lisa for an Elimination Challenge] I feel so confident working with her, so comfortable, I'm predicting victory tomorrow.
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Lee Anne: Stephen, you gotta sell it!
Stephen: I'm trying. I don't think this is our target market!
Stephen: I'm trying. I don't think this is our target market!
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Lisa: Somewhere in the recesses of my mind it's occurring to me that perhaps we didn't think it through, serving seared tuna in the Mission District.
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Miguel: [Referring to Andrea before the Judges' Table convenes] My friend has immunity here, and I'm up on the chopping block but I feel great and I know she saved me today, so I'm feeling really confident.
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Harold: [Going to the Judges' Table with the second group] I knew we were in trouble at this point cause, I mean, first group that goes in gets handshakes, kisses, and champagne and the second group goes in and it's usually a bloodbath.
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Andrea: [to protect her teammate Miguel] If I did something to destroy his chances of staying, um, then I would like to give him my immunity.
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Mike Yakura: [to Miguel at the Judges' Table] If you have these skills and you want to win this just go like 'Hell no, I'm doing this, I'm taking this cart over, I'm going to drive. If I'm going to go down in a burning plane I'm going to be at the wheel.'
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Stephen: I could've got the food out on time if I wasn't at the table explaining about where Rueda is in location to Rioja.
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Stephen: The other team's concept is totally a style that I would never engage in, you know it was very warming, welcoming, very comfortable.
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Katie Lee Joel: So the winning chef will be going to Cannes, and somebody else will be getting canned.
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Tiffani: I wanted to help decorate the room – it's something I enjoy doing, and it feeds who I am – but I was happy to sort of have Dave out of the kitchen.
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Tiffani: If Dave gets in a bad head space, it's over, but it could have been much worse, we could have had Stephen.
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Lee Anne: [of working with Stephen and Miguel] I got put on the team with the big thinker and the no thinker.
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Tom Colicchio: This is going to sound harsh; I've had better from a take-out place in New York.
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Guest: The salmon was USELESS! …I was all of a sudden in a bad convention – it might as well have been boiled chicken.
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Stephen: I needed to talk to some of the members of the hotel, and making sure that the EXECUTION – the foremost important part of this whole entire event – was intact.
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Stephen: A chef's responsibility is to delegate. He is a leader, he is a manager in the kitchen; no one took that role. No one, except for myself.
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Stephen: This wedding cake had no potential whatsoever. I did not want to attach my name – even if I were to help – because, you know, mediocrity is not my game and I just didn't want to have anything to do with it.
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Harold: Stephen definitely deserved to go home. I could have backed him up, but he called Lee Anne out. There was no way I was gonna let Lee Anne go out like that.
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Harold: Who caters a wedding out of a Supermarket?! That's unheard of. That's ridiculous! You have specialty purveyors that you go to… that specialize.
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Stephen: Now that my role in this competition has finally come to an end I'm going to be a restaurateur, and that is my goal in life. I will probably influence the industry and raise the bar to a level of excellence that I don't think has been achieved yet to date in this country.
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Harold: When I saw the truffles in with the wine, I thought, "This is why I got involved in this competition. This is why I'm here."
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