“You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.”
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Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.