Sitcom Quotes · Page 9

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints…

— James Wolcott

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in…

— Janet Jackson

Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that and make…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The hope is that you're never pigeonholed, but at the same time I would have been content being a guy in the…

— Paul Walter Hauser

I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character…

— Harry Shearer

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in…

— Michael Patrick King

As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to…

— Meghan Daum

A sitcom. I hate that word.

— Angela Lansbury

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

— Josh Thomas

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

— Jimmy Smits

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

— Hannibal Buress

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

— Kevin Dillon

I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.

— Horatio Sanz

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

— Dave Foley

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

— Janet Evanovich

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

— Kirstie Alley

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny.

— Yasmine Bleeth

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

— Kurt Sutter

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

— Russell Brand

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

— Daniel Baldwin

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

— Lauren Lapkus

I ventured into a world of sitcom, and I have no regrets. I loved it.

— Christopher Lloyd

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

— Megyn Price

The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season…

— Ari Graynor

I think, on network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright…

— Lisa Kudrow

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are…

— Angela Robinson

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because…

— Jeff Kinney

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets…

— John Stamos

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

— John Lloyd

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre…

— Nick Robinson

In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

I'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have…

— Patton Oswalt

There are different kinds of passages in the movie [Chicken with plums]. One of the passages is like a sitcom and another…

— Vincent Paronnaud

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

— Sherri Shepherd

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