There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

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.

You need to make effort and commit time to do what you love.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds!

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.