Sitcom Quotes - page 2

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school. (Jeff Foxworthy)
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man. View quote
Mike Epps
This woman woke up to see me and John Stamos banging on her windows. She must have thought she died and went to sitcom hell. View quote
Bob Saget
I guess my first pilot was February of '96. I did a pilot with Kevin Pollak and his wife, Lucy Webb, for CBS, that was not picked up. And then I kind of started being more in the process. I kind of hung around, looking for work. Didn't do a pilot the next year, but in that time did this film called Southie that we shot in south Boston with these guys that I knew. But really was more focused on doing dramatic stuff. And then every year or couple of years doing, you know [with forced cheer] sitcom pilot! View quote
Will Arnett
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme. View quote
Dylan Moran
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. View quote
Dylan Moran
That has never been heard of in the history of television. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year. View quote
Tyler Perry
The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. View quote
Betty White
A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it. View quote
Jason Ritter
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. View quote
Jeff Kinney
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. (John Lithgow)
I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience. View quote
John Lithgow
I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. View quote
John Lithgow
I ventured into a world of sitcom, and I have no regrets. I loved it. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. View quote
Roseanne Barr
Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. View quote
Jerry Stiller
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. View quote
Alan Cumming
Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman. View quote
Aarti Mann
A sitcom. I hate that word. View quote
Angela Lansbury
Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. View quote
Aunjanue Ellis
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same. (Ben Savage)
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. View quote
China Chow
I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience. View quote
Chyler Leigh
People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom. View quote
Clint Howard
There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident. View quote
Craig Charles