Top 66 Robert Rinder Quotes

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it’s because they think I can send them to prison.

I’m not as conscious as I should be about my diet and eating a healthy balance of fruit and vegetables because I do so much exercise. However, I love good grilled fish and Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern salads.

As a lawyer, I’ve dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims’ families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way.

An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely different world, freeing you from whatever you may be going through. At its best, it can be better than any medication.

One of the happy consequences of my brain is that I rarely sleep.

In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it’s a total failure.

We need to be able to turn to our immediate circle to ascertain whether our internal checks and balances are functional and to be able to rely on them to point out gross errors.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!

You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it’s marvellous, and it’s not going away.

I really worry about the way in which you, as a celebrity, are disproportionately treated. Frankly, the industry is almost single-handedly designed to interfere with people’s moral chemistry.

I’m very much into Barry’s Boot Camp… it’s the real deal.

I don’t want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show ‘Crime Stories?’ No, it’s crucial.

One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man – it’s like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it’s beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don’t seem to have had anything done.

My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn’t even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break – I can’t help but wonder if I would be so lucky today.

Ultimately, whenever you have a new opportunity, do it with gusto and fun and be wholly indifferent to what other people think.

My sexuality, in terms of ‘Strictly’ or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.

I didn’t get into fitness until my late twenties. I had put on a lot of weight; I was quite chubby and feeling really depressed. But exercise helped everything – the body and the mind.

No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it.

Fitness is really important for my mental and emotional equilibrium as well as my physical wellbeing.

I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers’ counting is different – they only go to eight beats, which doesn’t relate to a bar.

When I first heard Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way,’ I looked out the window for the car alarm going off.

It is always best to settle all outstanding financial matters as soon as divorce proceedings are concluded.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it’s actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.

In our ‘Strictly’ group, we really did bond. It’s seemingly disappointing to some that we had no diva meltdowns. I made true friends during the experience, which is surprising because I’m not a new-pals sort of person.

I dread my trial at the pearly gates – knowing my luck, I’ll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views.

If every person charged with a crime was allowed to claim money from the authorities when their case was dropped, our police would end up spending all their time defending claims for compensation.

It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.

My musical taste is somewhat dated – I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you’re in my comfort zone.

The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

Serious crime is very, very rare, and I think all of us are interested because they are rare and unusual. If they were banal and everyday, we wouldn’t be interested in them at all.

I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was there was a gulf between what really took place in the middle of a case, the impact on victims, the effect on the police and how they solved crimes, and the way it was reported.

It’s always nice to have new clothes made for you.

I celebrate Christmas with wilful glee.

If a deal advertised on an unknown website looks too good to be true, it almost certainly is.

Never trust people; always trust paper. I’d marry a piece of paper if I could.

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

The law is the law whether you’re dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child’s best interests.

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that’s probably what it is – and there’s lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

Before starting a building project, it is wise to discuss your plans in full with the neighbours.

I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like ‘Julius Caesar’ and playing the lute very badly.

Going to salsa clubs may be popular, but I feel we’re really missing something as a society by overlooking ballroom dancing. If only we could persuade schools to teach it or there was somewhere young people could go on a Saturday night to learn it.

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability.

I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.

Above all else, look around to employ the best talent you possibly can.

Anyone who’s been in my court knows my maxim: ‘If you make them, you pay for them!’

If the press is to be free, the state has no role in regulating what is published.

There’s something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

I hope I’m always appropriate on ‘JR’ if it’s a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who has a wardrobe malfunction with a lime green mankini, even I on the odd occasion find it mildly amusing.

Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn’t necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment.

I realise I’m known for doing big, very serious cases, but fundamentally, any lawyer will tell you that even the most complex trials come down to the same questions. Are people telling porky pies? Are bank accounts dodgy? Is someone trying to get one over on you? It’s my job to listen and then decide.

Let’s start spreading work experience and opportunities a little wider so that the photographers, writers, and TV producers of tomorrow are drawn from a broader section of society.

My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce’s harrowing ‘Ghost Dances.’

From time to time, I definitely look witheringly, which is why I’m well known.

On TV, the nitty-gritty of trials takes place between commercial breaks, whereas, of course, reality is infinitely more complex. True crime also makes us more empathetic.

I think I’m incredibly stoic. If I have a bad headache, it takes a while before I reach for a tablet.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

As efficiently as our phones connect us to one another, and as much as we take advantage of that, we must remember that they have the power to alienate us, too.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the ‘Harry Potter’ books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.