Quotes by Seth Macfarlane - Page 2

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Chamberlain
Hills
Monty
Office
Python
Benny
English
Brought
Hill
Monty Python
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The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Should
Ugly
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Income
Problem
Shows
Budget
Cable
Networks
The Problem With
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Artist
Bent
Cartoon
Hell
Specifically
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Jobs
Strange
Strange Places
Writing
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The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Broadway
Done
Worry
Good Thing
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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 / Actor
Good Morning
Hours
Jokes
Next Day
Remained
Wee
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The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Jobs
Average
Average Person
Eight
Lifetime
Antsy
Same Thing
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
College
High School
School
Theater
Always School High School
High School And College
School Always High School
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Drama
Growing Up
Sci Fi
Stars
Thoughtful
Twilight
Zone
Huge Star
Star Trek
Trek
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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 / Actor
Long
Release
Sopranos
Sticks
Watches
Watched
The Sopranos
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'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 / Actor
Family Guy
Hate
People
Attracting
Weird Thing
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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 / Actor
Oscars
Want Something
Would Be
Riff
Worst Thing
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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.'
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Funny
Absurd
Example
Monty
Python
Song
Sound
Funnier
Monty Python
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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!'
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Offensive
One Time
Time Me Remember
At Least One
Whoa
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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 / Actor
Kids
Doors
Television
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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 / Actor
Animation
Doors
Television
Working
Necessarily
Opened
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Family Guy
Offensive
Sake
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
America
Importance
People
Rejection
Systematic
Science Time People
Particularly
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Family Guy
Offensive
Sake
Shock
Horribly
Tried
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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 / Actor
Dinner
Don't Care
Internet
Looks
World Your Internet
Dumbest
Facebook
Pictures
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Astrology
Different
Years
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Depends
Time Work Done
Work Time Day
Tweeting
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Angel
Diversity
Sleep
Angels
Puts
Trend
Vampires
Zombies
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Running
Fire
Pro Life
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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.'
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Corporate
Guy
Trying
Weather
Anyway
Booth
Myself Me Always
Tries
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Connecticut
Dialect
Islands
New England
Rhode Island
Thinking
Arguably
Complex
Nail
Region
Rhode
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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'
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Men
Atheist
Believe
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Elusive
Failing
Insecure
My Own
Thinking
Too Much
Wish
Life Great Myself
Read
Press
Surprisingly
Taking
Tend
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Coming To An End
Cosmos
Ends
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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 / Actor
Dream
Humor
College
Horrible
House
Real
Sense Of Humor
Sick
Stuff
Twisted
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Making
Sense
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Eras
Littles
Spaghetti
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Space
Believe
Doe
Evolution
Excitement
Gravity
Program
Space Program
Achieved
Afford
Regress
Rekindle
Superstition
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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 / Actor
Okay
Prison
Release
Inside
Forms
Msnbc
Reality Show
Sign
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Animator
Boston
College
Conservatory
Musical
Musical Theater
Disney
Planned
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Dad
Giving Up
People
Staff
Term
Work Dad Me
Bush
Gladly
Price
Upside
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[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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Fcc
Self
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Childhood
Mother
School
Yeah
Boarding
Boarding School
Grade
Grade School
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Calls
Cross
Hundreds
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Careers
Courtship
Easy
Getting Married
Hollywood
Married
Method
Mistress
Normal
People
Traditional
Wide
Person
Very
Actor
Much
Open
Career
Date
Getting
Making
Other
Places
Sharing
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Morning
Entertaining
Friday
Horrible
Preview
Showmanship
Years
Time Always New
Networks
Glued
Time New Always
Lineup
Premiere
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Religious
Two
Years
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The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Family Guy
Fluid
Guy
Jerk
Moving
Next
Tone
Writing
Bit
Characters
Disney
Flowing
Goes
Pose
Slow
Simpsons
Snappy
Subsequently
The Simpsons
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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.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Council
Family Guy
Giving
Writing
Funny Family Good
Creative Control
Discussed
Episode
Proposed
Reads
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There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Character
Two
Voice
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From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.
Seth Macfarlane / Actor
Media
Next Week
Writing
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