Sitcom Quotes - Page 10

• I'm going old school. Adult comedy but you can have your kids in the room. Kind of Andy Griffith meets Bill Cosby meets Bob Newhart. Also my character isn't an idiot as all the rest of the sitcoms recently have the dad character like Homer Simpson.

  Henry Cho

  Dad, School, Character

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

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Horoscopes, Relate

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• Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

  Bill Burr

  Ideas, Work Out, Come Up

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• Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do.

  Mike Judge

  Tired, Done, Littles

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• I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.

  Simon Bird

  Silly, Heart, Mean

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• If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Choices, Would Be, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

  Craig Charles

  Thinking, Careers, Dwarves

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

  Alan Davies

  Football, Principles, Magazines

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• I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

  Marlene Zuk

  Ideas, People, Males

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• For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.

  Scott Berkun

  Song, Strong, Kings

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• I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Ferrari, Done, Lost Everything

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.

  Will Smith

  Acting, Television, Stage

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• [And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

  Steve Carell

  Character, Laughing, Wife

  "Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein Talk THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. March 11, 2013.

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

  Dan Wakefield

  Christian, Religious, Drama

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• Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Google, Bangs, Lists

  Twitter post from Oct 7, 2010

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

  Al Sharpton

  Done, Havens

  "Sharpton Nixes Sitcom". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2005.

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• My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

  Michael Schur

  Cheer, Fun, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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

  David Alan Basche

  Crazy, Character, Classic

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• It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cute, Children, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Emotional, People, Laughing

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I get approached to do shows all the time. There's a lot of money in sitcoms, but I've never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don't think people want to see me saying "Honey, I'm home." It's just not my thing.

  Chris Rock

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Class, Luxury

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Rifles

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