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"I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't."
"The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me."
"Butter typically melts around, you know, 90 Fahrenheit, as opposed to about 20 degrees higher for lard. So what that means is that when you're working with it, the lard is going to stay more solid, which is great for flakiness."
"I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey."
"I want to bring things up to room temperature, especially poultry, before I cook it because I want it to cook faster so that there's less moisture loss."
"If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick]."
"Lumps are caused by one thing and one thing alone - the improper addition of a starch."
"What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste."
"What happens is that in each clump you've got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour."
"I keep the "ThunderCats" thermos safely in the kitchen."
"I hate using the word coagulant."
"I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig."
"I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night."
"I am publicly apolitical."
"I never rated my cuddle factor, but I expect it's pretty low."
"I played every bad guy in Shakespeare."
"I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am."
"I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it."
"The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it."
"Your patience will be rewarded."