Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Seth MacFarlane - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

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

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

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

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.

I distrust all television doctors.

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.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

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.

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.

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

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'

[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.

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

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

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