James Roday Quotes

I love 'Lost' and 'Mission: Impossible III.'

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

I noticed that 'Lost' had sort of worn out our welcome; because of 'Lost,' audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster.

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

I've decided 'Breaking Bad' may be one of the best TV shows ever, but I had to watch every last episode of the first four seasons to come to that conclusion.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

I've enjoyed watching 'Lost.' I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'.

Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also most interested in the relationship between the characters. As in 'Masterpiece,' I'm trying to create characters who not only are solving a mystery but are solving the riddle of their own personal relationships.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

Anything to do with 'The Office' I would revisit.

Every season of 'Teen Wolf' was really cool and exciting and unique, but there was just something about the first season story-wise that was, I think, the coolest.

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

Compared to the other work I've done on TV, 'Breaking Bad' was funny. In the beginning, I described it as a dark comedy.

I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.