Top 395 Sitcom Quotes & Sayings

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

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

In Mexic,o the concept of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they put it in the telenovela category. But, of course, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

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

I'd like to do a sitcom.

I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.

I would love to be on a sitcom or on Broadway.

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.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

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

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.

I ventured into a world of sitcom, and I have no regrets. I loved it.

Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

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.

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.

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

One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.

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.

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

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

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I wouldn't consider myself a traditional sitcom actor or someone you'd even think would be in a sitcom.

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

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.

I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

I'd love to see a sitcom about someone with cerebral palsy.

In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. I love theater and I think doing a sitcom in front of a live audience is the closest you can get to theater, and it's really the best mix of like standup and theater, is really a sitcom. I started as a standup and I still continue to do that as well, so I think I'm just a TV guy and happy for it. I think my movie career is kind of like my social life, I'm picky and not in demand. So it perhaps is working out.

I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

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

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

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

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

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

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

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

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

'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.

Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

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

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

I'm enjoying Channel Four's '10 O'Clock Live.' I like the idea of putting together a dream team and seeing what happens. I also like 'Not Going Out,' the sitcom starring Lee Mack. It's a sitcom packed with jokes. Not many of them as frowned upon as lacking kudos.

Just saying I'd like to do a sitcom is poison words, isn't it?

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

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

What makes 'Derek' a different kind of sitcom - if it is even a sitcom - is its sincerity.

The difference between doing a live show and a sitcom is that a sitcom can live on. If you do it well, it can leave a legacy, whereas most of our live work never gets repeated because it's final, it's done, you start again.

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

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

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