Sitcom Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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 got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

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

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.

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.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

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

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.