Thomas Gibson Quotes

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.

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.

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

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

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

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

It's just hard for a multi-camera show: Either they hit big, or they don't.

Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.