Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.
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Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
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I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.
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Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.
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I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
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There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.
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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
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Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".
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Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
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Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
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I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
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When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
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You would not want me on your football team.
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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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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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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.