Sitcoms Quotes

We`ll shoot in Los Angeles, on the same lot where we shot Roseanne. It`ll be difficult because I live in New Orleans. But I really enjoy doing sitcoms. You`ve got 22 minutes a week to put on a new play. It keeps me off the street. (about his role as a gay construction worker)

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

The burden of originality is one that most people don`t want to accept. They`d rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they`re supposed to like, what they`re supposed to buy, and what they`re supposed to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butt-head telling you what music you`re allowed to like and not like, and you`ve got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you`re too stupid to know when the joke is--people are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them like that.

When I went up there and accepted the (second) Emmy, I remembered that when I was about 20, a psychic told me I was going to win two Emmys that were going to be like bookends for playing a secretary on a sitcom. And I said, `I`m not going to do sitcoms. I`m a great actress and I`m going to change the world.`

(1990): "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."

Do a sitcom. Don`t do a one hour. That was actually my advice. He was going to do a one hour. I was like, `Are you crazy? You know what people make for sitcoms and how little they work, right? You see all of our friends on sitcoms.` - Her advice for her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr..

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

Everything goes in cycles. There was a time 15 years ago when sitcoms were No. 1 on TV. Now, people are enjoying the quality of dramas, especially Jerry Bruckheimer dramas, which feel like miniature movies. For us, it feels like we`re making a little movie every week.

Everything goes in cycles, ... There was a time 15 years ago when sitcoms were No. 1 on TV. Now, people are enjoying the quality of dramas, especially Jerry Bruckheimer dramas, which feel like miniature movies. For us, it feels like we`re making a little movie every week.

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

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

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.

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.

Bigger Than Hitler is because I made so many more sitcoms than Hitler ever made. It`s just vast. Videos of me have been watched in countries that weren`t invented when he was around. It`s just a fact of who I am.

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing too, because they seem so forced.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I`ve got a dry sense of humor.

The most debased forms of mass diversion - video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms - turn out to be nutritional after all,

It`s the comedy conundrum right now. You hear from the audience that they want something more than `stupid` sitcoms. The young audience wants different form-breakers, but it`s hard to get a mass-appeal show that breaks the form too much.