Sitcom Quotes · Page 7

Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote…

— Bret Stephens

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 think that 'The Good Place,' for instance, is a sitcom about ethical philosophy. Sounds crazy, but it worked.

— Cord Jefferson

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents…

— Dan Harmon

Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned…

— Lea Thompson

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really…

— Miranda Hart

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great…

— Chyler Leigh

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and…

— Thomas Gibson

You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

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 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 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

I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite…

— Sharon Horgan

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

— Judah Friedlander

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations…

— Eric Andre

I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.

— Brendan Hunt

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite…

— Dylan Moran

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for…

— Dave Attell

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd…

— Robert Webb

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

— Mark Feuerstein

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

— Rainn Wilson

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

— David Alan Basche

We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.

— Declan Donnelly

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually…

— Garry Marshall

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up…

— Eric McCormack

Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

— Dan Wakefield

“We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.”

— Aimee Bender

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four…

— Tyler Perry

I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes…

— Amber Stevens

Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think…

— Nahnatchka Khan

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting…

— Ben Savage

I spent a long time on a big studio sitcom, 'Baddiel's Syndrome,' for Sky, and got no audience.

— David Baddiel

30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not…

— Tina Fey

In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.

— Ellie Kemper

I wouldn't consider myself a traditional sitcom actor or someone you'd even think would be in a sitcom.

— Wyatt Cenac

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest…

— Steven Weber

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

— Ellen DeGeneres