My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my… — Mircea Monroe Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes… — Mike Epps Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When I did a sitcom and played a postman, I was brought to tears playing that postman, because I felt like one.… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I did a sitcom, and I really enjoyed looking for different ways to be funny - lifting that off of the page… — Yannick Bisson Copy Share Image
I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.'… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I started on television, and on sitcoms, and loved them, but then they sort of seemed to be going through sort of… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as… — Andrea Anders Copy Share Image
I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for '30 Rock'. Some people think we're old friends from 'Second City' days.… — Judah Friedlander Copy Share Image
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
Comedy comes out of everyone's worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It's always about… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well,… — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres something about the emotions and reactions that feels very… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
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