Robert Rinder Quotes

Robert Rinder

Profession : Judge

Birth : May 31, 1978

I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

Learning about crime in great detail forces us to ask ourselves how it happened, how the victims and perpetrators got to that point, how the law works, how the police force functions.

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder

Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.

Robert Rinder

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

Robert Rinder

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.

Robert Rinder