Top 88 Seth MacFarlane Quotes

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.

When ‘Family Guy’ started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

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.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

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.

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

The only problem is time.

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

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.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

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.

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?

The resistance to science is idiotic.

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’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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

‘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.

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

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

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny.

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!’

You don’t want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

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.

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

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones’ laugh begins now.

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

You would not want me on your football team.

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

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.

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

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

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

Science has become politicized, and that’s an embarrassment.

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones’ laugh begins now.

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

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.

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

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 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.

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

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

When ‘Family Guy’ started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

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.

‘American Dad’ is, by its nature, much more political.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

You don’t want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

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

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 still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

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.’

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

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 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 was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

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.