Sitcom Quotes - Page 7

• For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast, but it was foreign territory for me. Not for Bobby. Bobby Cannavale has been down that road before. With my character, I think it will be a one-and-out. I don't think you'll see my character [in Vinyl] naked again, so relax everybody.

  Ray Romano

  Sex, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  War, Party, Men

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over. I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. That's why they're okay stand-ups, but they're never going to be great, because they don't have that presence. They never built those muscles up.

  Patton Oswalt

  Grateful, Winning, Battle

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.

  Horatio Sanz

  Shows

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

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• 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

  Reality, Would Be, Language

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• 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

  Friday, Drama, Night

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

  China Chow

  Tv Shows, Television, Want

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

  Jason Marsden

  Thinking, Genre, Locked

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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, Pilots, I Realized

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Stuff, Projects

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

  Mark Feuerstein

  Drama, Procedures, Shows

  "Jeffrey Donovan, Matt Bomer and Mark Feuerstein — The Boys of Summer". Interview with David Hochman, www.tvguide.com. June 15, 2010.

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

  Tricia Helfer

  Drama, Silly, Complaining

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• I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

  Darrell Hammond

  Lots Of Money

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• 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

  Writing, People, Competition

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• Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

  Ken Jeong

  Showbiz

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• 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.

  Ben Savage

  Thinking, People, Shows

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• 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

  Children, Character, Age

  Janet Jackson (2011). “True You”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

  Roone Arledge

  Powerful, Play, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Office, President, Politics

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• People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Theater, Stage

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• I loved doing sitcoms.

  Will Estes

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• A sitcom. I hate that word.

  Angela Lansbury

  Hate, I Hate

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

  John Lithgow

  Feelings, Comedy, Aspire

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Hysteria, Mad, Political

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

  Tom Bissell

  Believe, Magic, Stories

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