Sitcom Quotes - Page 10

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

  David Spade

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

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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'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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• 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

  Thinking, Careers, Dwarves

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Males

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• The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Girl, Real, Way

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• 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

  Stars, Years, Host

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  John Lithgow

  Successful, Ends, Theater

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• So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

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• 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

  Song, Strong, Kings

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• 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

  Ferrari, Done, Lost Everything

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• 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

  Acting, Television, Stage

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• My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

  Michael Schur

  Cheer, Fun, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Choices, Would Be, Actors

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

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

  David Alan Basche

  Crazy, Character, Classic

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• I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Class, Luxury

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I get approached to do shows all the time. There's a lot of money in sitcoms, but I've never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don't think people want to see me saying "Honey, I'm home." It's just not my thing.

  Chris Rock

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

  Alan Davies

  Football, Principles, Magazines

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• I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cute, Children, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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

  Al Sharpton

  Done, Havens

  "Sharpton Nixes Sitcom". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2005.

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• I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Rifles

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