Seth MacFarlane Quotes

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

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• I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Actors
  • Married
  • Careers

• Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Shows
  • Special
  • Horrible

• I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • School
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Funny
  • Should
  • Ugly

• Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Skins
  • Foxes
  • Notorious

• I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Kind
  • Religious
  • Car

• If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Song
  • Sound
  • Example

• The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Laughing
  • Quests

• The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Relationship
  • Should
  • Investigated

• 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Sometimes
  • Doctors
  • Viewers

• Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Children
  • Acting
  • Adults

• The only problem is time.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Time
  • Problem

• 'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Hate
  • Enough
  • Attracting

• When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Different
  • Astrology
  • Celestial

• Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Media
  • Presses
  • Outrage

• I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Littles
  • Western
  • Eras

• The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Guy

• Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Humor

• You gotta keep the funny intact.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Intact

• Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Cheese
  • Spray

• At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Stuff
  • Hell
  • Theater

• I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • England
  • Hardest
  • Connecticut

• The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Problem
  • Shows
  • Income

• The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Today
  • Interesting
  • Sleep