Top 90 Quotes About Seth Macfarlane

#1. I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

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#2. There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'

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#3. I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.

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#4. 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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#5. If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

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#6. I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

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#7. Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

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#8. 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

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#9. If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

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#10. You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

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#11. I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

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#12. I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

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#13. I'm bad at golf.

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#14. Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

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#15. You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

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#16. Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

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#17. I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

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#18. 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

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#19. 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.

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#20. People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

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#21. I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

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#22. I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?

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#23. The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

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#24. Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

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#25. Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

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#26. The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

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#27. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

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#28. I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

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#29. There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

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#30. There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

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#31. If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

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#32. 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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#33. I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

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#34. Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

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#35. I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

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#36. 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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#37. 'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

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#38. The resistance to science is idiotic.

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#39. You would not want me on your football team.

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#40. The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

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#41. [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.

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#42. Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.

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#43. I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.

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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

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#47. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.

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#52. Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

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#53. If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

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#54. The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

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#55. With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

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#56. I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

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#57. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.

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#58. I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

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#59. 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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#60. Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

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#61. I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

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#62. The only problem is time.

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#63. I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

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#64. I don't smoke much pot anymore.

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#65. Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

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#66. I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.

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#67. I distrust all television doctors.

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#68. The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

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#69. On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what time allows. Twitter, priority-wise, has to come after the work is done.

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#70. When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

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#71. The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

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#72. My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

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#73. Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

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#74. Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

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#75. What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

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#76. I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

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#77. Yes, believe me I am black and blue. Plus I just finished a Seth MacFarlane movie called Ted and I can't believe the cast I got to work with there [Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg]. I feel like I am winning some kind of contest to trick people into working with me.

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#78. When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

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#79. The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

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#80. You gotta keep the funny intact.

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#81. At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

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#82. I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.

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#83. The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

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#84. I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

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#85. Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

Rob Sheffield

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#86. I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

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#87. Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.

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#88. Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

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#89. 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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#90. I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

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