Quotes About Television

Sitcom is the best gig in show business because it's easy hours, nine to five.

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

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.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

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

I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth.

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.

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

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

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

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

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

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

In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

I watched a lot of 'I Love Lucy.' Then I went to college, and I didn't watch TV, really. I don't know: something happened after 'Friends' went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world.

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.