Sitcom Quotes - Page 3

• I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

  Mayim Bialik

  Three, Comedy, Raised

  "Emmys 2012: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Mayim Bialik - a Smart Bet". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.

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

  Jason Bateman

  Doing Me, Gray, Ifs

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• TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hollywood, Tonight, Appearance

  "And I Should Know". nymag.com. May 15, 2011.

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

  Dave Attell

  Guy, Tvs, Fit

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• 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

  Matt Groening

  Smart, Attention, Goofy

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• 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

  Matt Groening

  Memories, Tv Shows, Down And

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• I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Listening, Theatre, Losing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

  Katie Price

  Laughter, Hate, Real

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• When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

  Brad Pitt

  Thinking, Hair, Trying

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• When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Hollywood, Way

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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

  Tyler Perry

  Hollywood, Three, Four

  "Tyler Perry, Movie Mogul". Interview with Sheryl Garratt, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

  Matthew Perry

  Cheer, Couple, Keys

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• I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

  Rachel Nichols

  Thinking, Would Be, Comedy

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• My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

  Judd Nelson

  First Love, Love Is, Acting

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

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• The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

  Dylan Moran

  Trends, Stage, Get Away

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

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• I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Office, Very Good

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

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• The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined - especially if you're doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That's exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Games, Play, Actors

  "Interview with Tony Host Neil Patrick Harris". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  Max Lucado

  Weekend, People, Hours

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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

  Norm MacDonald

  Motion Pictures, Interest

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Roles, Actors

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• When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Family Guy, Littles, Wanted

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• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

  Christopher Meloni

  Couple, Boys, College

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

  Dylan Moran

  Book, Thinking, Black

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

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

  Kirstie Alley

  Born, Response, Audience

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