The Bear Quotes (Season 5)

To break patterns, you have to break patterns.

Everybody runs their route, everybody does their job, plays their game. Collaboration leads to jazz. Trust your teammates. Trust the process.

You’ve been doing wheelies and doughnuts and telling everybody else to do the same. But, like, we are out of gas. And you’re not the only driver.[to Carmy]

You need to be on top of it now, Chef. No hesitation. No giving a f*** what I have to say. You are in charge.[to Sydney]

We let anxiety set limits on emotion, on feelings, on grief. And we trick ourselves into thinking there’s limits because of fear.

We got nothing left to lose. So, we ain’t gotta worry about a f***ing thing, and that is f***ing perfect.

Today was the first day in a very long time when I woke up and I thought, “I know what I’m doing. I am good at my job. I’m getting better. And I can do this.” And then it pours. It does not stop raining. The rain is in the building, actually.[to Luca]

This service… Everybody cared so much. And everybody tried so hard, and everybody loved so much. It didn’t feel like one person trying to survive. It felt like a group of people supporting each other, trying to lift each other up.

Listen, nobody’s dream was working in this place, okay? There are a million different restaurants in a million places at least 2% less of a s*** show than this place. I mean, the walls are literally falling apart. There are grown men falling through them. But we’re here together. This building is not the foundation. It’s us.[to Marcus]

If we’re gonna invite people into our home, we are gonna look like a f***ing family.

I’ve been to one f***ing perfect restaurant in my life. No stars. No “this chef” or “that chef” or “this fucking magazine” or “food that floats.” It was a restaurant where everyone was laughing their ass off all the time and talking over each other so you couldn’t even hear s***. And it was a restaurant that served meatballs and, like, two-day-old lasagne and cold cuts and whatever else was f***ing left in the fridge. It was a restaurant that, you know, like, made me feel less alone.

I try to scream alone.[Sydney Adamu]Yeah, that’s the thing. I would have chosen to scream at everyone. We’re different.[Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto]