Seth MacFarlane Quotes

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Seth MacFarlane

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• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Kind
  • Ass

• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Woman
  • Movies
  • Find

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Great
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Reason
  • Fame

• The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Strong

• God's help, the love of the people, the strength of Denmark.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Distance

• To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

  

  Coventry Patmore

• I love those skies, thin blue or snowy gray, Those fields sparse-planted, rendering meagre sheaves; That spring, briefer than apple-blossom’s breath, Summer, so much too beautiful to stay, Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves, And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Sleep

• I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Bored

• Mancini was a big part of my life. I sang a lot of his music, and he became a good buddy.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  

  Preet Bharara
  • Black
  • Financial

• The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

  

  Charles Van Doren
  • Important

• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Riches
  • Occasion
  • Good Actions

• We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Real
  • Reason
  • Care

• What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Happy
  • Brain
  • Toes