Seth MacFarlane Quotes - Page 3

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

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.

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

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

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

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.'

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.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

[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.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

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.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

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.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

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

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

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.

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.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

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.

You would not want me on your football team.

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.

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.'