Quotes About Entertainment

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.

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

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

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.

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.

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'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

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

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

It used to be that if you were on a sitcom you couldn't get work in film because it was so different. Now it's almost like you have to be on TV to do other film work.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.

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.

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.

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.

Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!