Top 35 James Roday Quotes

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.

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.

I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my room. That was a big deal, and I saw ‘Blue Velvet’ on HBO. It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think children’s minds are supposed to be blown, but they probably shouldn’t be watching ‘Blue Velvet.’

‘Psych’ was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many ’80s icons as we possibly could.

It’s rare that you sit down for an episode of ‘Psych’ and think, ‘Oh, that was just okay.’ For the most part, we’re either really knocking the ball around, or we’re striking out and failing miserably, but you don’t ever want to be anywhere in between.

I don’t think the expectation is that the ‘Psych’ musical is going to be ‘Rent,’ so I think as long as we didn’t completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we’d have a fighting chance of pulling it off.

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.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the ‘to do’ list for a long time.

As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of ‘Psych’ allowed us to do homages, the show creator and I both had respective dreams. His was a musical episode, and mine was a ‘Twin Peaks’ episode.

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.

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.

I can watch SportsCenter on a loop, like, five times in a row until my girlfriend is like, ‘Seriously? It’s the same highlights!’ It just brings me peace, I think. Any kind of game – college basketball, college football, obviously anything pro.

I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it’s still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I’m working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don’t think it’ll ever stop being surreal on some level.

Without banging a drum or getting on a soap box, there are always ebbs and tides in this country in terms of the political and social climate that we might be dealing with at any given moment.

In the real world, it doesn’t always go your way like it can on a television show.

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

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.

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.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

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.

I’d describe ‘Psych’ as ‘Real Genius’ meets ‘Django Unchained.’

‘Psych’ is a cult show, and anytime a show takes on a cult status, it means that the fans are a huge part of it.

Anytime you’re lucky enough to be on something that lasts longer than half a season, you never quite know what kind of life the show is gonna take on.

I don’t know if we would have stuff like ‘Deadwood’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ if ‘Twin Peaks’ had never happened.

It’s impossible to make 22 or 16 great episodes every year. It doesn’t matter who you are or how talented of a group you have.

People need to laugh and turn their brains off.

In some ways, especially with social media, I feel like ‘Psych’ has found another whole life since it went off the air.

‘Gremlins’ is essential ’80s comedy scary viewing.

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.

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.

I always feel like I’m not very impressive in interviews when I talk about what I watch on television.

You do something, like, something like ‘Psych’ for long enough, it’s tough to shake up people’s preconceptions of who you are as a performer.