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Sitcom Quotes By Ice Cube

[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

Sitcom Quotes By Casey Kasem

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. — Casey Kasem

Sitcom Quotes By Chris Morris

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

Sitcom Quotes By Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable. — Tommy Wiseau

Sitcom Quotes By Seth MacFarlane

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. — Seth MacFarlane

Sitcom Quotes By Olivia Holt

What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning. — Olivia Holt

Sitcom Quotes By Max Brooks

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted. — Max Brooks

Sitcom Quotes By Ian McKellen

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine. — Ian McKellen

Sitcom Quotes By Mike Scully

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. — Mike Scully

Sitcom Quotes By Scott Berkun

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong. — Scott Berkun

Sitcom Quotes By Victoria Jackson

I always wanted to be on a sitcom. — Victoria Jackson

Sitcom Quotes By Thomas Gibson

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them. — Thomas Gibson

Sitcom Quotes By Walter Mosley

It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every second of the day.
Racism is a luxury in a world where resources are scarce, where economic competition is an armed sport, in a world where even the atmosphere is plotting against you. In an arena like that racism is more of a halftime entertainment, a favorite sitcom when the day is done. — Walter Mosley

Sitcom Quotes By Jim Norton

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle. — Jim Norton

Sitcom Quotes By John Lithgow

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

Sitcom Quotes By Dave Attell

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. — Dave Attell

Sitcom Quotes By Tahj Mowry

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.' — Tahj Mowry

Sitcom Quotes By David Edelstein

Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and blandly apolitical, apart from its watered-down feminism. You see, Fey's Kim Baker - changed from Barker - transforms herself from a neophyte reporter, condescended to by male war correspondents, soldiers and Afghan officials, into a hard-charging political animal who speaks the language fluently and parties as hard as men. That's about as edgy as a sitcom. — David Edelstein

Sitcom Quotes By Bob Newhart

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

Sitcom Quotes By Kym Whitley

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

Sitcom Quotes By Jon Stewart

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

Sitcom Quotes By Roseanne Barr

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

Sitcom Quotes By Betty White

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. — Betty White

Sitcom Quotes By Michael Schur

Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff. — Michael Schur

Sitcom Quotes By Craig Ferguson

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. — Craig Ferguson

Sitcom Quotes By Thomas Pynchon

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

Sitcom Quotes By Charisma Carpenter

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up. — Charisma Carpenter

Sitcom Quotes By Casey Wilson

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form. — Casey Wilson

Sitcom Quotes By Ty Burrell

It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and then see how that character is going to react to that particular chaotic catastrophe. That's just my take on it, anyway. I don't really get too hung up on what the future of the show is. — Ty Burrell

Sitcom Quotes By Alan Cumming

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

Sitcom Quotes By James Wolcott

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. — James Wolcott

Sitcom Quotes By Nathan Lane

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

Sitcom Quotes By Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me. — Miranda Hart

Sitcom Quotes By Janet Jackson

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family. — Janet Jackson

Sitcom Quotes By Tony DiSanto

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format. — Tony DiSanto

Sitcom Quotes By Sam Kinison

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

Sitcom Quotes By Nancy Travis

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

Sitcom Quotes By Seann William Scott

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

Sitcom Quotes By Tyler Perry

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. — Tyler Perry

Sitcom Quotes By Thomas Pynchon

Yeah, but nowadays it's all you see anymore is cops, the tube is saturated with fucking cop shows, just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom. Right. Get the viewer population so cop-happy they're beginning to be run in. Good-bye Johnny Staccato, welcome and while you're at it please kick my door down, Steve McGarrett. — Thomas Pynchon

Sitcom Quotes By Matt Taibbi

The time to start worrying about the consequences of our editorial decisions was before we raised a generation of people who get all of their information from television, and who believe that the solution to every problem is simple enough that you can find it before the 21 minutes of the sitcom are over. Or — Matt Taibbi

Sitcom Quotes By Tom Shales

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers dare to make them flawed and thus fully delineated, but they're not flawed in the silly, stereotypical ways that once dominated such portrayals. — Tom Shales

Sitcom Quotes By Gabriel Iglesias

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

Sitcom Quotes By Hector Elizondo

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

Sitcom Quotes By James Wolcott

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. — James Wolcott

Sitcom Quotes By Garry Marshall

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

Sitcom Quotes By Judd Nelson

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

Sitcom Quotes By Julian Barnes

When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases. — Julian Barnes

Sitcom Quotes By Alice Lowe

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom. — Alice Lowe

Sitcom Quotes By Bill Burr

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups. — Bill Burr

Sitcom Quotes By Ken Jeong

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food. — Ken Jeong

Sitcom Quotes By Kaitlyn Dever

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

Sitcom Quotes By Tricia Helfer

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

Sitcom Quotes By Jim Gaffigan

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

Sitcom Quotes By Danny Pintauro

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

Sitcom Quotes By Sherri Shepherd

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on. — Sherri Shepherd

Sitcom Quotes By Martin Freeman

It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.' — Martin Freeman

Sitcom Quotes By Mayim Bialik

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work. — Mayim Bialik

Sitcom Quotes By Jon Krakauer

The accused rapist, Calvin Smith, had graduated from a small-town high school the previous June, where he'd distinguished himself as an athlete. Individuals who knew Smith have described him as "kind," "easygoing," and "goofy." But he had never had sex before meeting Kaitlynn Kelly, and a look at what he has posted on a social media site suggests that he was a frustrated, involuntary celibate. On January 11, 2011, Smith posted a line from the animated sitcom Family Guy on his Facebook page: "women are not people god just put them here for mans entertainment. — Jon Krakauer

Sitcom Quotes By Jasika Nicole

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama. — Jasika Nicole

Sitcom Quotes By Pippa Evans

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you. — Pippa Evans

Sitcom Quotes By Marlene Zuk

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

Sitcom Quotes By Matthew Perry

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. — Matthew Perry

Sitcom Quotes By David Alan Basche

I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter. — David Alan Basche

Sitcom Quotes By Tom Shales

'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

Sitcom Quotes By Stuart McPhee

Knowing that Tom had a lot of connections in the television industry, I took the opportunity to pitch my sitcom idea to him that I had floating around in my head for years. According to Tom's frank assessment, a comedy about an Eastern Mediterranean peasant flying to America to live with his distant cousin and getting into crazy hijinks was a terrible idea. — Stuart McPhee

Sitcom Quotes By Kurt Sutter

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. — Kurt Sutter

Sitcom Quotes By Tiffany Madison

Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced.
For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. — Tiffany Madison

Sitcom Quotes By John Updike

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee. — John Updike

Sitcom Quotes By Darren Star

When you're doing a single-camera show, it's more buying into a level of reality. I think a sitcom, a four-camera show, doesn't require that so much. I think with a film show, you just need the characters to grow. — Darren Star

Sitcom Quotes By Neil Patrick Harris

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

Sitcom Quotes By Ron Eldard

I have to say ... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever. — Ron Eldard

Sitcom Quotes By Mircea Monroe

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

Sitcom Quotes By Will Smith

Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting. — Will Smith

Sitcom Quotes By Clint Howard

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

Sitcom Quotes By Kody Keplinger

On the ground, Cash gave a signal, and all the guys lined up by the pool. In unison, they stripped off their shirts and tossed them onto the grass. An audible sigh- like the ones you hear on a sitcom that is "filmed in front of a live studio audience"- filled the room. It was almost funny, really. Such a strong reaction to a bunch of shirtless boys. — Kody Keplinger

Sitcom Quotes By Sherilyn Fenn

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

Sitcom Quotes By Kristen Ashely

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

Sitcom Quotes By Eric Andre

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s. — Eric Andre

Sitcom Quotes By Benny Fine

We look at 'MyMusic' as the future of the sitcom. — Benny Fine

Sitcom Quotes By Jeff Kinney

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

Sitcom Quotes By Megyn Price

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best. — Megyn Price

Sitcom Quotes By Rachel Nichols

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything. — Rachel Nichols

Sitcom Quotes By Tom Hodgkinson

The terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a miserable set-up, as satirized brilliantly in the UK sitcom The Office. — Tom Hodgkinson

Sitcom Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

Inside the hole, the red lips say, "we all grew up with the same television shows. It's like we all have the same artificial memory implants. We remember almost none of our real childhoods, but we remember everything that happened to sitcom families. We have the same basic goals. We all have the same fears."
The lips say, "The future is not bright. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sitcom Quotes By Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author. — Bob Newhart

Sitcom Quotes By Kevin Nealon

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional. — Kevin Nealon

Sitcom Quotes By Wendi McLendon-Covey

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

Sitcom Quotes By Kevin Dillon

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom. — Kevin Dillon

Sitcom Quotes By Miranda Hart

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

Sitcom Quotes By Mike Epps

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

Sitcom Quotes By Topher Grace

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom. — Topher Grace

Sitcom Quotes By Aunjanue Ellis

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. — Aunjanue Ellis

Sitcom Quotes By Angela Lansbury

A sitcom. I hate that word. — Angela Lansbury

Sitcom Quotes By Chris Gethard

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

Sitcom Quotes By Anne Taylor Fleming

We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails. — Anne Taylor Fleming

Sitcom Quotes By Miranda Hart

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

Sitcom Quotes By Bill Engvall

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

Sitcom Quotes By Amy Sherman-Palladino

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

Sitcom Quotes By Anne Tyler

She had always assumed that when she was old, she would have total confidence, finally. But look at her: still uncertain. In many ways she was more uncertain now than she had been as a girl. And often when she heard herself speaking she was appalled at how chirpy she sounded - how empty-headed and superficial, as if she'd somehow fallen into the Mom role in some shallow TV sitcom. What on earth had happened to her? — Anne Tyler