Adam Richman Quotes

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

You can't control the way people are going to describe you.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

People don't think of me as Glenn Kelman; they think of me as the real estate guy. If I wasn't interested in real estate, that would be pretty tragic, wouldn't it?

I'm the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

I prefer that people are now talking about me as a player rather than about my hair.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

I want all of America to get to know me better and to know that I am a good kid.

I'm very aware of my image and the perception of me.

As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.

I have to be responsible with my character, my image and my reputation.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

How you carry yourself is how people perceive you.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I don't even think about having a "rock-star profile." But sure, I always think, "Wouldn't it be great to have your friends along for the ride?" I just feel like me, you know? I've always been me, and I feel like the same guy. It surprises me when people expect me to be anything other than just a dude. I'm just a dude.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.