Top 193 Sitcoms Quotes & Sayings

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

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

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

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

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

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

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their early to late 40s.

I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.

There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

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

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

I've done some sitcoms here and there, but nothing long term.

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

I loved doing sitcoms.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and have some really quirky characters, because most of the stuff they make now is just so marginalized. How interesting is a white guy who's 28 years old and lives in New York? What story have we not seen about a character like that? Just as a writer, it's so much easier to come up with comedy when you have a really oppressed Indian boy. Or a mother who is an addict but still has to take care of her kids.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

I've said from the start that I'm not going to write kiddie sitcoms.

Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.

I watch sitcoms like Seinfeld, and here's a newsflash, but what a great show.

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Everyone talks about the gags, but the most difficult thing is coming up with the stories. You have to learn to do that for sitcoms.

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

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.

I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.

Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Sitcoms are usually sweet with no viciousness.

Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode.

30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.

Though the contemporary shows are good, I prefer sitcoms like my father's.

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

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

People tend to group together their favourite sitcoms and feel that they all took place in one spot named 'the past', but in fact all these sitcoms are spread over a long period of time, and all the terrible sitcoms that were on have been justifiably forgotten.

I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.

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

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.