When he came to television, there was no way I wasn’t going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted someone in the room with me that I could look over and say, ‘Can you believe we’re watching this?’ James Roday Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. James Roday Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. James Roday Read Quote
I don’t know if we would have stuff like ‘Deadwood’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ if ‘Twin Peaks’ had never happened. James Roday Read Quote
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. James Roday Read Quote
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. James Roday Read Quote
