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!”
ADAM RICHMANI 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.
More Adam Richman Quotes
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I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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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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I said “I’ve had pho,” and then he goes, “Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?” I was like, “Come on, man
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He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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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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I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.
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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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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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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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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’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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If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
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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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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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I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, “He knows where the good food is,” which is an awesome correlative. It’s an awesome simplification.
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It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain – I’ve always had a soft spot for this little club.
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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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This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.
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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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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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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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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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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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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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