Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.
I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.
Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on 'Hell's Kitchen,' doing to them what I had done to him.
I can't work in a domestic kitchen; it's just too confined. There's no freedom, and there's no buzz.
If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.
You cannot criticize a man for going to work. You really cannot.
I don't need Michelin, and they don't need me.
Like most fathers, I would do anything for my children, and I've worked very hard at trying to be a good father. I want to give them education, security, everything I never had.
English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.
I met my first wife at the fishmonger's in the summer of 1987, some six months after opening Harveys.
Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.
My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.
I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.
People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.
I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.
Generally, I respect critics; they have their job to do.
Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.
Females make better cooks than men. Females have a better palate. They have a better sense of smell. They never take shortcuts; this is why they're very good in kitchens. The weakness in what they do is they are not as physically strong as men, so they're never really given the opportunity.
Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.
I'm the Christopher Biggins of reality TV.
