James Roday Quotes

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

The cool thing about 'Transparent' is that the show is funny but not like a sitcom is funny. It all comes down to the writing... The writers on that show are so good that you don't have to worry about anything. There are so many things that can go wrong making a TV show or a movie, but if the writing's good, that's, like, 95 percent of it.

I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

Miranda's my character; I created her! But there's a lot of comedy I want to bring to the world that isn't just Miranda.

I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't really have any life experience to work off of.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.