Thomas Gibson Quotes

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.

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.

I loved doing sitcoms.

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.

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

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

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

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

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

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

Emily Kapnek's such a great writer, producer, creator.

'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

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

When I am not recording, I do live shows or am at home catching up on shows which I regularly watch. But there will always be some music around me.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

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

I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.

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

We shoot 'Hustle' for 12 to 16 weeks, so that's how long I'm here each year. I've always loved London. I lived here for three years back in the Seventies, when I did a TV series, 'The Protectors,' for Lew Grade.