Seth MacFarlane Quotes

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

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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'.

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

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

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

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

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

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

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.

The only problem is time.

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

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

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.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

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.

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

'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.

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

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

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

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

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'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. 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.

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.

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

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.