Alicia Silverstone

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.