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Seth MacFarlane Quotes

I love the English. My God, they brought us ‘Benny Hill,’ ‘Monty Python,’ ‘The Office,’ Neville Chamberlain.

– Seth MacFarlane

‘The Brady Bunch’ asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

– 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

I have a car that I like – an Aston Martin – for Sunday drives in the country.

– Seth MacFarlane

The resistance to science is idiotic.

– Seth MacFarlane

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

– Seth MacFarlane

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

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?

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– Seth MacFarlane

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’.

– Seth MacFarlane

The only problem is time.

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– Seth MacFarlane

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.

– Seth MacFarlane

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he’s funny.

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– Seth MacFarlane

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.

– Seth MacFarlane

You gotta keep the funny intact.

– Seth MacFarlane

If something is shocking without being funny it’s hard to justify.

– Seth MacFarlane

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

– Seth MacFarlane

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones’ laugh begins now.

– Seth MacFarlane

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.

– 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.

– 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

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

– Seth MacFarlane

‘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.

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– 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

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

– Seth MacFarlane

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

– Seth MacFarlane

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