I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

I was participating in acting and writing for other shows and I knew that eventually I wanted a sitcom of my own.

— Quinta Brunson

After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that…

— Norm MacDonald

Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus…

— Jake Weber

I'd never done a sitcom until the 'Michael J. Fox Show.' I'd never even guest starred in one until then. So it was definitely…

— Betsy Brandt

I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this…

— Anonymous

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched…

— Mike Epps

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it…

— Zach Woods

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it…

— Ellen DeGeneres

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy, that if…

— Josh Widdicombe

I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire…

— Tommy Wiseau

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music…

— Peter Tork

Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take…

— John Cleese

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

— Julie Benz

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

— Joyce DeWitt