Sitcom Quotes - Page 3

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

  Steve Buscemi

  Comedian

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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 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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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  Nathan Fillion

  Giving, Pay, Foxes

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• The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Winning, Winner, Truth Is

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• I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Play, Missing, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

  Jo Brand

  Dragons, Bird, Stereotype

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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

  Russell Brand

  Towers, Language, Regard

  "Russell Brand: This charming man'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

  Carol Burnett

  Timing, Wonderful, Dharma

  "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

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• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, "Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome."

  Adam Carolla

  Daughter, Mother, Fire

  "The man’s man". Interview with Larry Getlen, nypost.com. June 17, 2012.

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• 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.

  Alan Cumming

  Dames, Film

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Watches, Cacophony, Noise

  "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

  Ray Romano

  Talking, Missing, Comedy

  "Ray Romano: Standup, Sitcoms And Real-Life Humor". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 5, 2011.

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