Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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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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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.
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Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
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Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".
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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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I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
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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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I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
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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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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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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 hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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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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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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You would not want me on your football team.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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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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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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Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
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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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I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.