Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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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 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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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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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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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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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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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 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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Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
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Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
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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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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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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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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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You would not want me on your football team.
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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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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.