“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.”

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.

So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

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,

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.

I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.

It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.

I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.

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!”

I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.

When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.

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.

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.

I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

The audience has always been my best director.

Ive never actually watched another director work.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors.

Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.