Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters.

I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.