Seth MacFarlane
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.Collection: Business
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.Collection: Humor
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Funny
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Dad
You gotta keep the funny intact.Collection: Funny
I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Humor
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.Collection: Knowledge
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.Collection: Science
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.'Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Space
'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Funny
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.
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
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.
There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
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!'
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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.
The only problem is time.
You would not want me on your football team.
Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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.
'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 was a big Fred Flintstone fan.
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.
I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.
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?
I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.
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.
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.
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.
The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
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.