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Portrait of Robert Irvine

Robert Irvine

(1962) Musician

28 quotes in 196 categories

Robert Irvine is a musician, best known for Mission, cook!.

Quick Facts About Robert Irvine

Born: November 30, 1962
Profession: Musician
Notable works: Mission, cook!

About Robert Irvine

Robert Paul Irvine is an English-American celebrity chef and talk show host who has appeared on and hosted a variety of Food Network programs including Dinner: Impossible, Worst Cooks in America, Restaurant: Impossible, A Hero's Welcome, Operation Restaurant, All-Star Academy, Guy's Grocery Games, Chopped: Impossible, and Restaurant Express. Irvine currently operates one restaurant, Fresh Kitchen by Robert Irvine, located within The Pentagon. He also operated Robert Irvine's Public House at the Tropicana resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from 2017 until the closure of the Tropicana in 2024. Irvine launched The Robert Irvine Show, a daytime talk show which aired weekdays on The CW between 12 September 2016 and 25 May 2018.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Irvine

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants…

Casinos

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When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

Break

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I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out…

Care

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I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry…

Big guy

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I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly…

Facts

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Food should be fun, but it should also be functional.

Chef

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America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

America

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Every meal should end with something sweet.

Ends

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When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we…

Big deal

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The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children.…

Audience

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I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.

Done

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I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to…

Adults

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For years - especially in England where I come from - cooking was a subservient job. When I told my Dad I…

Cooking

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The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

Bread

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The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that…

Hard

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I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

Done

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The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of…

Bites

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I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we…

Bryan

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Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me…

Military

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The military taught me discipline, how to problem solve, teamwork and loyalty, a perfect parallel to the kitchen. If we could take…

Amazing things

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Whenever I deal with children or the military, that becomes special to me.

Children

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Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner…

Brain

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God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

Deserve

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I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

Bigs

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What I learned about America is that anything is possible, but sometimes people get into businesses they shouldn't be in. They go…

America

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Robert Irvine by topic

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