Mcdonalds famous quotes
06-23-2025
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I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
-- Alex Kapranos -
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
-- Alice Waters -
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
-- Alice Waters -
McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.
-- Andy Cohen -
McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week
-- Anita Hamilton -
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
-- Beyonce Knowles -
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
-- Bill Vaughan -
What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!
-- Billy Connolly -
I go to McDonald's every day. But I don't eat much.
-- Brandy Norwood -
I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.
-- Channing Tatum -
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boos was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.
-- Chris Rock -
People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.
-- Christopher Brookmyre -
In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.
-- Clive James -
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.
-- Corey Feldman -
Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
-- David Lee Roth -
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
-- David McCullough -
I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.
-- Debra Winger -
McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.
-- Derrick Rose -
I hate Mcdonalds... but i'm forced to eat it.
-- Deryck Whibley -
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
-- Don Meyer -
I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.
-- Douglas Wilson -
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
-- Ed Westwick -
Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
-- Emily Mortimer -
The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.
-- Eric Schlosser -
McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
-- Eric Schlosser -
Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
-- Gail Dines -
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
-- Gene Siskel -
Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.
-- George Foreman -
Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.
-- Holly Madison -
How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
-- James Bovard -
I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
-- James Ellroy -
All I know is that when I needed McDonald's , McDonald’s was there for me.
-- James Franco -
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
-- James Franco -
I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, 'I forgot something.'
-- James Franco -
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
-- Jay Leno -
McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?
-- Jay Leno -
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.
-- Jerry Stahl -
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
-- Jim Cantalupo -
Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.
-- Jim Cantalupo -
We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.
-- Jim Cantalupo -
If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.
-- Jim Cramer -
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.
-- Joel Salatin -
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
-- John Galliano -
I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.
-- John Stamos -
Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.
-- John Yudkin -
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.
-- Jonathan Carroll -
I worked at car washes - two or three different car washes. I worked at McDonald's and Wendy's, I worked as a dishwasher and as a telemarketer in two or three different places. I sold windows door-to-door and never once sold a window.
-- Joseph Bruce -
It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.
-- Julia Sawalha -
Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.
-- Katherine Applegate -
For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!
-- Katherine Jenkins -
I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.
-- Kathleen Hanna -
I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.
-- Keith Ellison -
Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.
-- Keith Floyd -
There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.
-- Leo Hindery -
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.
-- Leon Trotsky -
It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.
-- Maria Bartiromo -
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.
-- Maureen Howard -
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Im a McDonalds girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.
-- Nikki Cox -
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
-- Norm Coleman -
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-- Pat Cash -
People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
-- Patton Oswalt -
We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.
-- Paul Stanley -
Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson -
People should just be aware of how they are eating... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.
-- Peaches Geldof -
Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
-- Rachel True -
Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.
-- Raquel Cepeda -
McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.
-- Ray Kroc -
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.
-- Ray Kroc -
Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.
-- Ray Kroc -
I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.
-- Ray Kroc -
For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
-- Richard Masur -
If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.
-- Rick Ross -
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.
-- Rupert Sanders -
When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
-- Ryan Lochte -
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
-- S. I. Hayakawa -
Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.
-- Sandy Alderson -
I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!
-- Scarlett Johansson -
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
-- Snoop Dogg -
There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.
-- Stephen Colbert -
Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
-- Steven Barnes -
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.
-- Susan Beth Pfeffer -
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
-- T-Pain -
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
-- Taylor Lautner -
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
-- Thomas Friedman -
Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?
-- Tiffanie DeBartolo -
Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car...
-- Tim Key -
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.
-- Trent Reznor -
Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
-- Venus Williams -
When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
-- will.i.am -
I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.
-- Willard Scott -
McDonald's released a new video showing how it makes their Chicken McNuggets. Apparently it turns out that McNuggets aren't made out of chicken. They're made out of people who ask too many questions.
-- Conan O'Brien -
Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.
-- Conan O'Brien -
I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.
-- David Bazan -
Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway. Instead, they work for individual franchise owners, ensuring that each individual fast-food outlet would have to organize and win union recognition separately. So there's not one central employer to bargain with, as in a traditional union campaign.
-- David Rolf
