Sitcom Quotes - Page 6

• I like to say that I was raised by sitcoms, and that my personality is comprised of different characters. Darlene from Roseanne, Denise from The Cosby Show, Uncle Jesse from Full House, a little Jessie from Saved By The Bell - but not the episode where she was addicted to sleeping pills.

  Thao Nguyen

  Character, Sleep, House

  "Thao Nguyen And The Get Down Stay Down". Interview with Matthew Borlik and Jen Girdish, music.avclub.com. April 16, 2009.

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• 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."

  Thomas Haden Church

  Thank God, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I've observed is that television in the last decade has increased to something that's almost unrecognizable. They are feature films. That's a huge shift, and it's something the audience expects. They still may want to watch their half-hour sitcom, but when they watch scripted drama, they expect the standard.

  John Noble

  Drama, Film, Audience

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. I love theater and I think doing a sitcom in front of a live audience is the closest you can get to theater, and it's really the best mix of like standup and theater, is really a sitcom. I started as a standup and I still continue to do that as well, so I think I'm just a TV guy and happy for it. I think my movie career is kind of like my social life, I'm picky and not in demand. So it perhaps is working out.

  Brad Garrett

  Thinking, Bored, Work Out

  "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.

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• If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Film, Reason, Ask Me

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Tina Fey

  Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is something about the vocal quality of the actors who can really do it. Jim Burrows, the great sitcom director who directed Will & Grace and Cheers, when an actor comes in to audition for him, he never looks at them. He just listens. Because funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny.

  Tim Matheson

  Cheer, Eye, Grace

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't want to go back to sitcoms - I'm a middle-aged, white guy - the high school principal who's a buffoon. It's hard enough raising kids now a days, and I don't want to be a part of a show that I'll be embarrassed watching shows like that with my kids and my mother. A lot of shows feel they need to get that for humor. You've have to have had a life experience; otherwise, it's toilet humor. If you've had a job before or experienced something, you get it. Some of these people haven't and they look for the cheap laugh.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mother, School, Kids

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Steve Howey

  Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Ambitious, Radio

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Reality, Thinking, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire movie. I also have the pilot for The Tommy Wiseau Show and of course The House That Drips Blood On Alex, which we are hoping to make a sequel.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Blood, House, Vampire

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.

  Jon Stewart

  Ideas, Goal, Important

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• I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

  Bob Newhart

  Family, Thinking, Today

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• When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Talking, Wells, Naive

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• After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.

  Norm MacDonald

  Stars, Inspiration, Gay

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• We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

  Christopher Titus

  Down And, Different, Vain

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

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• The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Way, Ifs

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• I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

  Simon Bird

  Team, Reality, Alternate Realities

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• As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to meetings and stopped beating myself up because I wasn't making a ton of money writing for some stupid sitcom, I felt really at home.

  Meghan Daum

  Stupid, Home, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience. In fictional families - in sitcoms, in dramas - the members are sharing huge amounts of their interior lives. And that has not been my real-life experience.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Real, Drama, Life Experience

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Directors, Really Cool, Interest

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

  Ice Cube

  Team, Done, Revolution

  "Ice Cube ‘Are We There Yet?’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 30, 2010.

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• I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.

  Ray Romano

  Conceited, Who I Am, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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