James Roday Quotes

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

Everyone says TV's going down the tubes, and it's all reality, but there's some really good writing and some amazing opportunities if you're lucky enough to throw your hat in the ring.

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.

I believe that if you want to exist on TV, you should be open to doing anything and everything.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

I started on television, and on sitcoms, and loved them, but then they sort of seemed to be going through sort of an ice age, and they started dying off one by one, and I recognized that, and my representatives recognized that, and we said 'Well, let's look at dramas and other things like that.'

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

You could be jealous of a girl who's not as pretty as you, but you just have that feeling that she's going to take your dude, and you might be right. Or you might be jealous of somebody who's not as good at their job as you, but you have this feeling that she's got that something extra that's going to help her move ahead. Whatever it is, you might have that weird feeling, and you might be right.

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.