Sitcom Quotes

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

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.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

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

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

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

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

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

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.

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

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.

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.

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

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

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

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

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

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.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

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

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.