Top Chef Quotes
Marcel: I'm stoked; it's my first win. Not to mention the fact that I was totally proud of my dish today. My performance could not have been any more soigné.
TV Show: Top Chef
Frank: Mike is definitely a hack. I don't think Mike could cook his way out of a paper bag, unless it had french fries with it.
TV Show: Top Chef
Michael: I'm getting to the end, where like I'm plating up, and Frank's working next to me, and he's humping some gorilla on his prep table or something, you know. Shaking everything. It's like a freaking 7.0 earthquake. I hope Frank goes home.
TV Show: Top Chef
Frank: I've been on a roll lately. I've been in the top three the last four shots. For the past eight, ten years, I've been the best at my field, and I'm fully relying on my abilities to take me over the top.
TV Show: Top Chef
Sam: I feel like I have a great chance at the title. People know that I'm a force. And um, and a team leader, ya know, and I think I have a great shot.
TV Show: Top Chef
Sam: The team nominates me team captain. If your team wins, you're the man. If your team loses, you're… history.
TV Show: Top Chef
Marcel: [In response to Ilan's attack on his "flavorless" gelee] And have you ever tried, like, that brand of juice, R.W. Knudsen's? It's 100% fruit juice, which is what I made my gelee from, which has, like, so much flavor! I mean, check your palettes, get 'em tested.
TV Show: Top Chef
Ilan: You know what's really funny Marcel, the first day I got here I've been wanting to smack you across the face. Why don't you fucking go to a new school, learn some shit, go to France, go to Spain, go travel, go relax, go learn how to use some fucking salt, paprika, come back to me, you know, come to New York, maybe I'll show you how to cook a little bit. I'll show you how to grill something. But until then shut the fuck up, keep making your foams and go cry in a corner!
TV Show: Top Chef
Betty: [referring to Marcel's QuickFire dish] Why does he have a foam on every fucking thing he makes?!
TV Show: Top Chef
Ted Allen: [referring to Betty's QuickFire dish] I also felt that your presentation was really, uh kind of a mess. It looked like something you raked up– not to be unkind, but…
Betty: Well you are!
Betty: Well you are!
TV Show: Top Chef
Marcel: Mike switches Envy for Lust with me, and I thought, "He just, like, gave away a gold mine."
TV Show: Top Chef
Ilan: Because Gluttony is a Sin so closely related to food, if I can't get this one right, then I should go home right now.
TV Show: Top Chef
Elia: [scandalized by Marcel's flirtation with one of the guests] Did you just pour chocolate in that woman's mouth?!
TV Show: Top Chef
Tom Colicchio: [speaking to the bottom three chefs] Our challenge today was, I thought, a very interesting one. You all had to choose one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and create a dish you thought best represented that sin. Unfortunately, each one of you committed a culinary sin.
TV Show: Top Chef
Debi Mazar: [referring to the foam on Marcel's dessert] I think it looks like cat spit. But you know, I just feel like the dish was prepared by somebody who hasn't had as much sex as he really needs to, to make a dish feel like you really wanna fuck.
TV Show: Top Chef
Tom: [startled by the high quality of Michael's dish] Our Michael did this? …I mean, what the Hell?! He should get his tooth pulled every day!
TV Show: Top Chef
Sam: I went to culinary school, my parents spent tons of money… and I came out with a deep love of mayonnaise.
TV Show: Top Chef
Marcel: [from his rap session on the roof] It's taken every ounce that I've got not to pop you in the face cause you're all a disgrace to the human race....
TV Show: Top Chef
Elia: Where's Marcel?
Michael: Crying.
Sam: I think he's on the roof. He's trying to jump.
Michael: Crying.
Sam: I think he's on the roof. He's trying to jump.
TV Show: Top Chef
Ilan: [trying to talk Elia into selling out her teammate Marcel] If you guys go up to the loser's block, then you just blame everything on Marcel.
Elia: I don't wanna be in that Judges' Table for negative comment ever again, ever!
Elia: I don't wanna be in that Judges' Table for negative comment ever again, ever!
TV Show: Top Chef
Padma: [at the Judges' Table after hearing about Cliff's "prank" and subsequent dismissal] I'd like to talk about something a little less depressing now.
Marcel: Talk about the food, or something...
Padma: Yeah, let's talk about the food because actually, you idiots, the food yesterday was really, really good!
Marcel: Talk about the food, or something...
Padma: Yeah, let's talk about the food because actually, you idiots, the food yesterday was really, really good!
TV Show: Top Chef
Ilan: [during soliloquy, in reference to Marcel's sea urchin sting] I would love to pee on Marcel
TV Show: Top Chef
Betty: [while prepping for Ilan] Marcel, do you want me to toast it with nothing on it fo–
Ilan: [interrupting in an outraged tone] What did you just call me?!
Betty: Oh my God, I should be shot!
Ilan: [interrupting in an outraged tone] What did you just call me?!
Betty: Oh my God, I should be shot!
TV Show: Top Chef
Hung: I've been labeled a CPA for about a year now: Certified Professional Asshole! [laughs] That's me!
TV Show: Top Chef
Padma: What is the greater crime, though, leaving something off the plate...
Tom: ...or Clay's dish?
Tom: ...or Clay's dish?
TV Show: Top Chef