These are random blurbs, facts and trivia about James that you might not know.

• James’ favorite comedic actor is Will Ferrell.
• He’s proud of his Hispanic Heritage
• James David Rodriguez is his birth name, but he shortened it when he started acting. He has said if he could start over, he would keep his full name.
• He has visited actual psychics in order to know what they experience when they get psychic messages in order to be able to make his character Shawn’s psychic ‘visions’ more believable.
• He graduated from Taft High in San Antonio.
• During the time his TV career was in a slump, it got to the point where Roday started thinking that he should stop trying as perhaps the medium of television wasn’t for him.
• Is also a writer, he co-wrote Skinwalkers (2006) and Driver (2006) with the same writers James DeMonaco and Todd Harthan for both movies. Roger Avary helped write Driver, and directed Driver.
• James and his on-screen best friend Dule Hill like to hide the crew’s equipment and organize poker nights for their co-workers on Psych. James has said that the two laugh sometimes laugh so hard on set that they ruin takes.
• Starting with the third season, James became a co-producer of his show Psych.