Top 45 Leftovers Quotes

With ‘The Leftovers,’ I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s probably a good sign.’

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don’t know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by ‘The Leftovers’ in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss.

I think if people stick with ‘The Leftovers,’ it’s a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that – and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

It’s not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don’t know what to do with them or can’t be bothered.

‘The Leftovers’ is my favorite job I’ve ever had in my life, anywhere, ever. It is one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called ‘Everything Stew,’ where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception – space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

There’s a song called ‘Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.’ I kind of went for it here in terms of – it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville – a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people’s homes, and there’s a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on ‘The Leftovers’ are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

Finding exciting ways to use leftovers is what we all struggle with. There’s one simple thing that you can do to transform them: Stock your pantry.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption – and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

The first time I read ‘Leftovers,’ I didn’t get it at all.

I feel like, in some ways, I couldn’t be a luckier actor to have Stick from ‘Daredevil‘ and Senior from ‘The Leftovers.’ Two really different, incredible parts to do. I’m just lucky.

I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with ‘The Leftovers’ because it came into someone‘s life at a particularly important time for them – if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy – and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Unlike excluding neoliberalism, which puts aside and discards millions of human beings and condemns them to survive on the leftovers from the banquet of the richest one per cent, the COVID-19 virus does not discriminate between them.

I’m very average. I’m into fresh, yummy family food. I’m into leftovers.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

I think ‘The Leftovers’ is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times it’s leftovers from one of my wife‘s dinners.

At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever’s in the fridge. It’s sort of a game.

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

My mother had her dresses made. In those days in Chile, the early ’70s, people had dressmakers make their things. With the leftovers, my sister and I always had a matching outfit. She had an outfit, we had the mini version. That was the very late ’60s, early ’70s way to dress your kids.

If I’m in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge – l’art d’accommoder les restes – it means gardening.

I really don’t do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.

People are apprehensive about finding ‘The Leftovers’ funny because it’s such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that… just like in real life.

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr’s crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

Since I don’t have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers.

For lunch, I tend to eat leftovers. I’m always recipe testing, so I tend to enjoy whatever is left in the fridge. I’m a big snacker, too.

I feel like ‘Leftovers’ is dealing with subject matter that’s kind of taboo when you’re talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.

My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It’s my comfort food. It’s amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don’t love it anymore.

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I’d have make my own gang, but with everybody else‘s leftovers.

But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don’t need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn’t changed that.

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.

I’m a busy mom and I’m a big snacker throughout the day, so I’ll do everything from leftovers from what my children did not eat, whether that’s like a half bowl of cereal or a banana or whatever.