Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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I don't smoke much pot anymore.
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I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.
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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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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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Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.
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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 can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
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The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
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Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
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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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Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".
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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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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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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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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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Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
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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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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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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
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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.