Top 90 Sushi Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sushi Quotes from famous people such as Drake Bell, Andrew Zimmern, Emma Roberts, Nobu Matsuhisa, Landon Donovan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.

I don’t eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.
Drake Bell
People forget that in early 1970s, there were 3 sushi bars in New York City. Three. Three. Think about that. Now, there is sushi in… I’ve eaten it – there is sushi at gas stations in Middle America.
Andrew Zimmern
I’m obsessed with sushi.
Emma Roberts
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It’s not so popular in the States yet, but it’s really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it’s not always that healthy, so I don’t keep it at home.
Landon Donovan
My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that’s pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.
Cameron Dallas
I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In classic Japanese cooking, shrimp like these would be dropped into a broth or boiled as served with sushi. But I think boiling dilutes their great flavor, and they are better when stir-fried.
Nobu Matsuhisa
My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
Bebe Rexha
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant – sushi restaurant.
Masaharu Morimoto
I’m definitely a sushi person. I know I can eat a lot and still be fairly healthy.
Holly Marie Combs
I’m not making art, I’m making sushi.
Masaharu Morimoto
I love sushi!
Dave Myers
Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
Camren Bicondova
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn’t been cooked.
Amy Lee
When I was 11 or 12 – a young boy in Japan – one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there’s a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I don’t discriminate against sushi. It’s all good in my book.
Billy Horschel
You’ll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering.
Charlotte McKinney
L.A., it’s nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
Jimmy Fallon
I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn’t give it up.
Victoria Pendleton
I had eel at a sushi bar once; it’s disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, ‘That looks safe.’ It wasn’t.
Chris Evans
The place that I always come for the best Sushi in Delhi is Sakae Sushi at the Ambience mall, Vasant Kunj.
Priyanshu Chatterjee
I could probably eat sushi every day.
Eric McCormack
In LA, I live on sushi or salad.
Denise Van Outen
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar.
Michelle Dockery
I’ve always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since ‘Raw Like Sushi,’ and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.
Neneh Cherry
Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is – that’s not interesting. What’s interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.
Dennis Crowley
I’m quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.
Deepika Padukone
Just remember the letter ‘S’: salads, stir fries, scrambles, soups, smoothies and sushi. You can’t go wrong with the letter ‘S.’
Harley Pasternak
If it’s time to indulge, I love desserts, especially Hershey’s chocolate. I also love sushi and Japanese food. Food is my favorite in general.
Nathan Chen
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
Robyn Hitchcock
Forget sushi, yakitori and tempura, ramen is what reall

Forget sushi, yakitori and tempura, ramen is what really gets the Japanese excited.
Rachel Khoo
I absolutely love sushi.
Chesney Hawkes
Sushi is my favorite thing to do in L.A.
Liam Hemsworth
Parents who don’t like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!
Eva Moskowitz
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
Daniel Pauly
BottleRock has these incredible VIP cabins where a chef is preparing sushi for you in your cabin or lounge decorated by Restoration Hardware.
Michael Rapino
There is something that has become part of my routine that I eat two or three times a week. Sushi. It exists in Europe but isn’t very popular, and especially in L.A., I started eating it. It’s both tasty and healthy.
Marko Jaric
Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time – that’s enough. Then sushi restaurant – butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.
Masaharu Morimoto
Tip your drag queens, bartenders, and don’t rub your chopsticks together at the sushi restaurant. Also, just in general, don’t be a dirtbag human.
Aquaria
For dinner I want real sushi – not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don’t go for any of those rolls. I’ll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
Junior Seau
Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.
Tom Junod
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.
Jennifer Morrison
I do have very high customer service standards – I’d send back sushi because it’s too fishy.
Greg McHugh
The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.
George Ezra
People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.
Lee Hyeon-seo
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I’m Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.
Ryan Adams
It was a difficult but wonderful balance to go from big budget, big craziness, everyone’s giant trailers, everyone’s sushi lunches, to a $4 million movie.
Nancy Juvonen
I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That’s how I feel about myself.
David Hasselhoff
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
Masa Takayama
With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I’m not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I’ll eat it if it’s locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we’ll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!
Alysia Reiner
Think of the sushi trend that started in the ’80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainment system in your living room as it was about the availability of good-quality raw fish. The Japanese food trend rose as the world of Japanese business and culture was becoming a bigger part of American life.
David Sax
A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.
Nobu Matsuhisa
In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.
Martin Yan
Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald’s, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It’s very high-class cooking in Japan.
Nobu Matsuhisa
One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, ‘No, you cannot do that.’ You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.
Bikram Choudhury
My non-Chinese food favorite… can I say sushi? It’s still Asian.
Gok Wan
My go-to take away order would be Chinese, pizza or sushi.
Maura Higgins
We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn’t eat sushi until I was 24.
Arden Cho
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
Nobu Matsuhisa
In fact one of the main reasons I head out to Los Angeles quite a bit is because they have the most amazing sushi bar in the world.
Chesney Hawkes
The only restaurants in which you're actually happy to

The only restaurants in which you’re actually happy to be served your entree are the restaurants that serve entrees ungarlanded by Chef’s ambition – sushi joints and steakhouses.
Tom Junod