Nancy Travis Quotes

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter.

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'

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

I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'

What I love most is television, and I would love to work on a sitcom.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

Every script I've read for 'Black Jesus' has been hilarious.

I think I worked an average of about 10 minutes a day [in Big Bang Theory series]. It took longer to get to the studio than I actually worked. So I regard the driving there as the actual job. The work itself was just fun.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

I was a boss on 'Cavemen.' That was portentous.

'Gilmore Girls' was the first show I ever worked on and was my absolute favorite show at the time.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.