Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.
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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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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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Every woman's innate ability to let anything 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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You would not want me on your football team.
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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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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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Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
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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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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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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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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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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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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.