Sitcom Quotes

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

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

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

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

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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

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

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all I did. Whenever I got away from television I was like, "Phew, thank God that's over. I am never going back."

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

I loved doing sitcoms.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well at television is because I grew up watching the great sitcom actors Jackie Gleason, I love Rob Reiner, also John Ritter.

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

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon sitcom.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.