These pasta quotes will inspire you. Pasta is paste in processed form (such as macaroni) or in the form of fresh dough or a dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes, and typically cooked in boiling water.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging pasta quotes, pasta sayings, and pasta proverbs.
Best Pasta Quotes
- “You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.” ~ Agnes Varda
- “Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.” ~ Joe Lauzon
- “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” ~ Federico Fellini
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“Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.” ~ Yotam Ottolenghi
- “I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” ~ Sophia Loren
- “In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you’ve cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.” ~ Gordon Ramsay
- “As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.” ~ Michael Chang
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“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” ~ Sophia Loren”Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.” ~ Monica Seles
- “All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.” ~ Sara Paretsky
- “In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.” ~ Steve Albini
- “Pasta is the one food I can’t live without. It’s the food I eat to fuel my running.” ~ Joe Bastianich
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“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” ~ Unknown
- “I’m a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day.” ~ Shay Mitchell
- “Carbs – especially pasta – are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.” ~ Joe Bastianich
- “I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.” ~ Emma Roberts
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“If I start feeling down I’ll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It’s the Italian blood in me.” ~ Natalie Imbruglia
- “I love England, especially the food. There’s nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manifesto!” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “It’s a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.” ~ Alice Waters
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“I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make.” ~ Drew Barrymore
- “My favorite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I mean when you get the thin slices.” ~ Kirsten Dunst
- “I seriously love to cook … My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli, and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.” ~ Bradley Cooper , Love pasta quotes
- “Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basics, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.” ~ Gordon Ramsay
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“I’d take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I’d take health overlooks.” ~ Kathryn Budig
- “When an Italian tells me it’s pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.” ~ Alex Ferguson , Italian pasta quotes
- “If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It’s pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.” ~ Emeril Lagasse
- “Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I’ll have one.” ~ Donna Karan
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“I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.” ~ Maria Sharapova
- “The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M.” ~ Charlie Pierce
- “The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.” ~ Joe Bastianich
- “Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what’s important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?” ~ Sherry Stringfield
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“When I’m in Italy on a Friday night, my first supper there is a big bowl of fresh pasta and a glass of local wine, sitting outside. There’s nothing better.” ~ Alan Titchmarsh
- “I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.” ~ Mel Brooks
- “I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.” ~ Bernadette Peters
- “I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That’ll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?” ~ Tommy Lasorda
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“I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta… A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that’s just not gonna happen.” ~ Queen Latifah
- “I don’t put cream in any pasta noodles ever. I would use a little butter, but I don’t ever use cream.” ~ Mario Batali
- “I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘cooking’ but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it’s done.” ~ Devon Werkheiser
- “I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.” ~ Charles Bukowski
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“I’d like to thank Dariel pasta.” ~ Phil Baroni
- “Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores – one in Los Angeles and one in New York.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “I’ve been making a lot of pasta. It’s easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.” ~ Meryl Streep
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“I might use milk if I was using a touch of milk to make like a lasagna or a baked pasta. But cream? That is totally not the way they do it in Italy, and it’s not a very good thing. It’s kind of a blanket for flavor.” ~ Mario Batali
- “America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.” ~ Joe Bastianich
- “My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.” ~ Tom Brady
- “Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.” ~ Rachel Caine
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“Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.” ~ Rachel Caine
- “I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I’m always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.” ~ Samantha Bond
- “Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with… Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon
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“The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic, and cheese] could marry so perfectly.” ~ Ruth Reichl
- “I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, ‘Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse’.” ~ Vera Farmiga
- “I can’t eat spaghetti. There’s too many of them.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” ~ Dave Barry
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“The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That’s what I did.” ~ Conan O’Brien
- “I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It’s so good.” ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
- “Give us this day our daily mask.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “I’m sort of a carb-oholic. I love pasta, and I know it’s really simple, but I love pasta with olive oil and crushed red pepper and maybe some Parmesan. I don’t really eat cheese anymore, but that would be my favorite. I love a tri colored salad – it’s my favorite.” ~ Judy Greer
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“And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?” ~ Anita Loos
- “With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience… hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!” ~ Terence Stamp
- “I’m a big pasta guy, but I’ve cut it out to stay fast and lean.” ~ Russell Wilson
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“At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? ‘We have been here.'” ~ Katherine Jenkins
- “My ideal meal would probably be the cheesiest pasta or pizza, followed by something creamy and chocolaty. I mean, just the worst things, really.” ~ Ricky Gervais
- “I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that’s really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn’t overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
