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.
ADAM RICHMANMy 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 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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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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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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I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
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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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If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
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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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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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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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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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“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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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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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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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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