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.
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More Adam Richman Quotes
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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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He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”
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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
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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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I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day
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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 by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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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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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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I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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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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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.
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We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
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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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“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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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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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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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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I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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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.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –
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