The Bear Quotes (Season 3)

We gotta be excellent every day.

You have no idea what you’re doing, and therefore, you’re invincible.

You judge a professional based on their performance and then determine how much money they’re gonna make? That’s f***ing stupid.

Why’d they quit?[Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich]Yeah, why’d they quit?[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]Because they didn’t wanna work in a “dysfunctional kitchen.”[Sydney Adamu]Show me a functional one.[Richard ‘Richie’ Jerimovich, Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]

Why are you such a f***ing a**hole?[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]How am I an a**hole?[David Fields]Do you have half an hour?[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]

People often talk about restaurants. As in, you know, what’s the history of it? What’s the impact it’s making? Who has worked there previously? What awards have they won? What about the, quote, “chef”? And I think what I’ve learned over the years, in all the places I’ve worked, is people don’t remember the food. It’s the people that they remember.

Out there, that’s my dojo. S*** gets rearranged without my approval or consent, it creates an environment of fear, and fear does not exist in that dojo.[to Carmy]

My life stopped.[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]That’s the point, right?[David Fields]That’s the point?[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]You wanted to be great. You wanted to be excellent. So you got rid of all the bullshit, and you concentrated, and you got focused, and you got great. You got excellent. It worked. You’re here. Look at all this.[David Fields]

It’s scary. Like, just relying on a person.[to Marcus]

If I were gonna leave something behind, I would want it to be panic-less, you know? Anxiety-free. And I think in order to do that, I would have to be square with everything, you know? And everybody. Like, to make it good, I’d have to filter out the bad.