Padma Lakshmi famous quotes

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Smart #Smart Women

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Beautiful #Touching #Body

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Song #Singing #Body

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Thinking #White #Giving

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Success #Accomplishment

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mother #Daughter #Cousin

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Wine #Thinking #People

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Cities #Trump

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Beautiful #Lucky #Looks

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Morning #Turkeys #Body

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Two #Gains #Size

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#New York #Careers #Paris

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Thinking #Cameras #Eating

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Sleep #Sensual #Sound

I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mom #Daughter #Careers

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Character #Mean #Clothes

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Wine #Emotional #Thinking

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Baby #Reading #Sleep

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Vegetarian

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Beautiful #Phones #People

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Eating Meat #Sandwiches #Bologna

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Thinking #Clothes #People

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Christmas #Wind #Tree

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mother #Want #Chef

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#People #Want #Young

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Successful #College #Careers

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Girl #Strong #Smart

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Girl #Thinking #Lunch

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Space #Littles #Body

I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
-- Padma Lakshmi

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Flower #Wine #Rose

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Sometimes

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Good Night #Sleep #Oil

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Jobs #Giving #Criticism

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Southern #Bulls #Spain

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Voice #Roots #World

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Thinking #Years #Luxury

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Real #Writing #Lucky

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Home #Empathy #Lines

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mom #Squares #Scared

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Cutting #Long #Onions

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mom #Daughter #Mother

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Children #Blessed #Simple

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Fashion #Writing #Good Friend

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Mom #New York #Kids

I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Work Out #Want #Burgers

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Thinking #Secret #Needs

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Writing #Want #Fantasy

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Wine #Phones #Labels

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.
-- Padma Lakshmi

#Tough