Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
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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.
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
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I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
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I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.
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If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.
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The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
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I distrust all television doctors.
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I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.
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I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
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I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
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When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
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I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.
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The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
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We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
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With R-rated movie you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
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The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
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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.
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.