If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
ADAM RICHMANThere 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 the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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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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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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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.
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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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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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Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.
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I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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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’m not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety.
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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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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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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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And take on the country’s most legendary eating challenges. I’m no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
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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 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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I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –
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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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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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It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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I’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,”
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Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.
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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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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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I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.
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