Seth MacFarlane Quotes

There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.

Seth MacFarlane

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• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Yourself

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Time
  • Like
  • Place

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Me
  • Gay
  • Laugh

• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Life
  • Work
  • Networking

• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Peace

• The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Taught
  • How

• I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Me
  • Religious
  • Right

• No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Survive
  • Civil Rights

• America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • America
  • Running
  • Understanding

• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Heart
  • Senses
  • Bliss

• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Democracy

• I think I learned to overcome some things in life through dance.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Life
  • Dance

• There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Body