If it’s a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it’s hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.
ADAM RICHMANThey flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.
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It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.
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If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
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A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.
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My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book.
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Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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Now I’m on a mouth-watering journey to find America’s greatest pig-out spots.
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It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.
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In the early ’90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.
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What they’re saying is, “I know who you are. I watch your stuff.” What’s better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing. What am I being pissy about?
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Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
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I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
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There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.
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It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.
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I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.
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Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.
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They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
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“Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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