Sitcom Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Light, People, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kudrow from Aug 01, 2011

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• I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

  Chyler Leigh

  Back In The Day, Great Experiences, Really Great

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

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• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Character, Thinking, People

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• There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

  Danny Pintauro

  Challenges, Way

  "For Actor Danny Pintauro, There's Life Beyond TV / Former `Who's the Boss?' star looking for challenges" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2000.

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• There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

  Jim Parsons

  Drama, Mean, Cameras

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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• You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Two, Voice, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

  David Spade

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

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• The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

  Lea Thompson

  Precision, Exciting, Whole

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• 'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

  Lea Thompson

  Cities, Interesting, Interesting Things

  Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  Nancy Travis

  Husband, Kids, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

  Sela Ward

  Half, Scripts, Hours

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• A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.

  Mike O'Malley

  Drama, Successful, Winning

  "TC with Mike O'Malley". Interview with Tom Caron, archive.boston.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't want to be sad but to laugh. Chances are they'll pick the sitcoms over the horror movies. So I learned that, while one's larger body of fiction can have quite a bit of sadness and conflict and tragedy in it , in a reading environment, the average audience member seems able to tolerate only a little bit of sadness. They'd much rather the reading be sexy, funny, and witty. Life is hard these days. There's more than enough sadness in the world, so I can't blame them.

  Chinelo Okparanta

  Sexy, Witty, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Careers, Different, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

  Peter Tork

  Plot, Comedy, Threatening

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• In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, Reading, Adventure

  Source: whatsonafrica.org

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• 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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