Sitcom Quotes

#1. People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

Clint Howard

#2. But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

Eric McCormack

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

Jason Marsden

#4. The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

Betty White

#5. The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Hanna Rosin

#6. One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

Tom Everett Scott

#7. 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

#8. My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

Mircea Monroe

#9. I went from a sitcom to a hospital drama, feature films. I've kind of been living the actor's dream. I'm not associated with one role or one medium. You're lucky if you're associated with one hit show.

Rocky Carroll

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

Jerry Stiller

#11. Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

Tom Shales

#12. We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

Aimee Bender

#13. Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

Roger Ebert

#14. There will be four ancillary shows on the MyMusic channel, and we'll be updating an entire blog with up-to-the-minute music news. You can visit it like BuzzFeed or Pitchfork and get album reviews. It's all as part of the sitcom experience, written by the characters.

Benny Fine

#15. I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

Al Sharpton

#16. 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

#17. Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

Josh Thomas

#18. Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

Miranda Hart

#19. 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.

James Belushi

#20. I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

Kevin Rahm

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

Tommy Wiseau

#22. Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

Cheryl Hines

#23. I've entered the looney bin," I told another unwitting customer, this one female.
"It's always like that around here," the customer replied. "That's why I come, it's like walking into a sitcom that could only air on HBO.

Kristen Ashely

#24. 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.

Gil Gerard

#25. People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

Marlene Zuk

#26. The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

#27. After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Roseanne Barr

#28. It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Isabella Rossellini

#29. When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.

Julian Barnes

#30. 'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations.

Tom Shales

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

Steve Buscemi

#32. 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

#33. Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?

Jasper Fforde

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

Hector Elizondo

#35. You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#36. I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

Ellen DeGeneres

#37. 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.

Alan Cumming

#38. If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Robert Webb

#39. The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Jeff Kinney

#40. What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

John Lithgow

#41. I have to say ... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

Ron Eldard

#42. I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

Neil Patrick Harris

#43. 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

#44. A sitcom. I hate that word.

Angela Lansbury

#45. 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.

Sherilyn Fenn

#46. 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.

Christopher Meloni

#47. I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Dave Foley

#48. A standard sitcom ... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?

Dave Finkel

#49. 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.

Lindsey Shaw

#50. I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Seann William Scott

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

Judd Nelson

#52. 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.

Matt LeBlanc

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

Yasmine Bleeth

#54. It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

Stockard Channing

#55. I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

Casey Wilson

#56. Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

Aarti Mann

#57. Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

Tricia Helfer

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Julie Benz

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

Zach Galifianakis

#62. Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

Kevin Dillon

#63. 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

#64. I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bob Newhart

#65. 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.

Scott Thompson

#66. In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

BD Wong

#67. So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Sam Kinison

#68. I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

John Lloyd

#69. A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

Nathan Lane

#70. Are you laughing? I can feel you laughing. My life isn't funny!" "Babe, your life should be a prime-time sitcom.

Janet Evanovich

#71. 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

#72. 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.

Craig Charles

#73. My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'

Casey Wilson

#74. My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Rocky Carroll

#75. If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

Mark Feuerstein

#76. I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

Chris Gethard

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

John Lithgow

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

Danny Pintauro

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

David Alan Grier

#80. The smartest kid Justin ever met, back in kindergarten, had told him to pretend his parents were characters in a television sitcom. 'Pretend there's a frame around 'em like the Tube, pretend they're a show you're watching. You can go into it if you want, or you can just watch and not go into it.

Thomas Pynchon

#81. I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.

Kym Whitley

#82. Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

Jamie Foxx

#83. I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Penelope Keith

#84. I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Mike Epps

#85. 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

#86. I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

Miranda Hart

#87. With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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

Dylan Moran

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

Scott Wolf

#90. Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

Ken Jeong

#91. You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

Bill Engvall

#92. 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

#93. I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

Miranda Hart

#94. The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

Jasika Nicole

#95. 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

#96. We look at 'MyMusic' as the future of the sitcom.

Benny Fine

#97. I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

Tahj Mowry

#98. I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

James Wolk

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

Sela Ward

#100. When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.

Doug Jones