James Roday Quotes

#1. It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.

Dule Hill

#2. I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.

Tim Gunn

#3. My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

James Roday

#4. 'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time.

James Roday

#5. I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.

James Roday

#6. When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

Florence Welch

#7. Maybe I like that you're available."
Oh, the romance. Her voice as dry as dirt, she said, "How am I not throwing myself at you right this very second?"
"It's a definite mystery.

Gena Showalter

#8. Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

James Roday

#9. The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

James Roday

#10. Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

James Roday

#11. The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Margaret Chan

#12. And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

James Roday

#13. I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.

James Roday

#14. Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.

Katherine Paterson

#15. I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.

Trey Parker

#16. A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Beverley Nichols

#17. What is this?'
'A Smart Car'
It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

Simone Elkeles

#18. Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

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#19. The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets ... these are the great unknowns. They will be debated as long as their is life. I think there's an inherent interest from people in what that stuff is.

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#20. The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#21. They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

James Roday

#22. Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

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#23. I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.

James Roday

#24. I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.

James Roday

#25. Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,
positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Mark Victor Hansen

#26. If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.

Michelle Hunziker

#27. Who is happy in this world? - One who does not think about how to be happy.

Deepak Rana

#28. About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

Tim DeKay

#29. I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where we are.

James Roday

#30. Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is Psych.

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#31. Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

James Roday

#32. I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

James Roday

#33. I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard ... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.

James Roday

#34. I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

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#35. USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

James Roday

#36. I'd describe 'Psych' as 'Real Genius' meets 'Django Unchained.'

James Roday