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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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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.'
Seth MacFarlane
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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
Seth MacFarlane -
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
Seth MacFarlane -
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.
Seth MacFarlane -
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.
Seth MacFarlane -
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane -
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
Seth MacFarlane
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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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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.
Seth MacFarlane -
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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I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.
Seth MacFarlane -
Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
Seth MacFarlane -
I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
Seth MacFarlane
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
Seth MacFarlane -
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Seth MacFarlane -
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane -
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.
Seth MacFarlane -
I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
Seth MacFarlane -
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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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
Seth MacFarlane -
The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Seth MacFarlane -
You would not want me on your football team.
Seth MacFarlane -
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Seth MacFarlane