Sitcom Quotes - Page 6

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

  Darrell Hammond

  Lots Of Money

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• I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.

  Sharon Horgan

  Writing, People, Competition

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

  Ken Jeong

  Showbiz

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

  Tommy Wiseau

  Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

  Tommy Wiseau

  People, Cost, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Two, Safety

  Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

  Ben Lerner

  Thinking, Contemporary Fiction, Literature

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Greek, Olives, Wanted

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• We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

  Brandy Norwood

  One Day, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be a sitcom, multicamera, audience - that's definitely a dream. It's in the works, so... it's closer than everybody thinks it is.

  Brandy Norwood

  Dream, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Trying, Use

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Want, Exciting, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

  Ben Savage

  Thinking, People, Shows

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• I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcoms—it had nothing to do with the color of them—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Crazy, Men, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Hard Work, People, Soda

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

  Bill Burr

  Acting, Routine, Comedy

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Fashion, Morning

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Fashion, Cameras, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.

  Andrea Anders

  Artist, Schedules, World

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

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• I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

  Shelley Long

  Philosophy, Choices, Tvs

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Drama, Signatures, Roles

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• 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.

  Topher Grace

  Training, Shows, 70s Show

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

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Thinking

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