In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
People still want to escape, but today's escape is different. People now want to know that there are people out there who… — Darius McCrary 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
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't… — Tatyana Ali Copy Share Image
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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My career isn't gonna screetch to a halt because some guy in Westbury filmed ten minutes of the show. "Well, we were… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama. — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
America has gone from the Obama Years to the Trump Years, like going from the 'West Wing' to a sitcom where the… — Frankie Boyle 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
I felt like - like I don't know what. Like this wasn't real. Like I was in some Goth version of a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
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