Seth MacFarlane Quotes
'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.
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
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.
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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.
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.
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.
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
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.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
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'.
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
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.'
My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.
The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.
Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
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.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
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.
