Sitcom Quotes · Page 4

Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!

— Phoebe Robinson

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

— Felicia Day

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

— Al Sharpton

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

— China Chow

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

— Steve Buscemi

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

— Danny Pintauro

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

— Chris Morris

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

— Megyn Price

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

— Ian Mckellen

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger…

— Brian Posehn

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on…

— Terrence J

I think the first thing that I really did was 'Traffic Light,' which was more of a half-hour sitcom. And from there,…

— Liza Lapira

I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so…

— James Wolk

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

— Russell Brand

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it…

— John Lloyd

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the…

— Steve Carell

For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast,…

— Ray Romano

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days.…

— Judah Friedlander

I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well…

— Steve Howey

I don't think of marriage as the drudge work that a lot of sitcoms and movies might have shown it to be,…

— Rob Delaney

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that…

— Sherri Shepherd

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string…

— Joyce DeWitt

Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at…

— Aaron Sorkin

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because…

— Patton Oswalt

We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the…

— Zachary Quinto

I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't…

— Bill Cosby

So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as…

— Betty White

Well, for one thing, for me, I don't exactly consider 'Modern Family' a sitcom, because it's single-camera. There's more location, so that's…

— Ed ONeill

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of…

— William Shatner

Even in the 1960's, look at the minority percent of those kids being raised without a father. It was around 20 percent.…

— Kevin Sorbo

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

— Nicole Sullivan

Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.

— Dov Davidoff

Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

— Lauren Lapkus

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

— Ken Jeong

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

— Tommy Wiseau

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

— Norm MacDonald

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

— Ant McPartlin

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

— John Lithgow