Brad Garrett Quotes

The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but you also get to do 'Have I Got News For You.' You get to do a sitcom, but you also get to do the 'Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.' I'm easily bored, so I like the variety.

I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

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 always wanted to be on a sitcom.

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

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

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

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

I've been watching 'Two and a Half Men.' That's my number one. Then 'Gossip Girl' and '90210.'

I love 'New Girl.' I think it's so fun.

I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

I get approached to do shows all the time. There's a lot of money in sitcoms, but I've never been the kind of guy who wanted to do one. I don't think people want to see me saying "Honey, I'm home." It's just not my thing.

I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well at television is because I grew up watching the great sitcom actors Jackie Gleason, I love Rob Reiner, also John Ritter.