335 Quotes by Julia Child

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you’ll have a marvelous time!

It’s a shame to be caught up in something that doesn’t absolutely make you tremble with joy.

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Fake food – I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut – is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren’t wealthy, but we were well-off.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

It’s simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn’t be anywhere else – it’s so beautiful, and there’s that location, and the sense of the free spirit. Who couldn’t become ravenous in such a place?