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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and… — Jake Weber Copy Share Image
I really set out to do this traditional looking and traditional sounding multi-cam sitcom, but then make the world as elastic as… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my… — Mircea Monroe Copy Share Image
It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take,… — Stacy Keach Copy Share Image
I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even… — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I… — Craig Charles Copy Share Image
Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I'd never done a sitcom until the 'Michael J. Fox Show.' I'd never even guest starred in one until then. So it… — Betsy Brandt Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as… — Olivia Holt 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
I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
I can just about enjoy it. There is an initial hurdle, where I feel like, oh goodness me, I'm going to watch… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
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
