"I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access."

"I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York."

"I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous."

"I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins."

"I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry."

"Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves."

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

“Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.”

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”

We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of Julia Child quotes and feel closer to your passion today!

“Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.”

“I believe in red meat. I’ve often said: red meat and gin.”

“Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.”

“It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”

“But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.”

“With enough butter, anything is good.” – Julia Child

“Well, all I know is this—nothing you ever learn is really wasted, and will sometime be used.”

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”

“The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.”

“If you’re in a good profession, it’s hard to get bored, because you’re never finished — there will always be work you haven’t yet done.”

“Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.”

“You learn to cook so that you don’t have to be a slave to recipes. You get what’s in season and you know what to do with it.”

“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”