Best 72 quotes of Seth Macfarlane on MyQuotes

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

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

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.

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

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

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

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

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.

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.

'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.

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

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.

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 cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

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

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 distrust all television doctors.

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'

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 don't smoke much pot anymore.

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.'

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

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

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

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

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