Sitcom Quotes

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

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.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.

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.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.