Seth MacFarlane Quotes - Page 3

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  People, Childhood, Hollywood

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• 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.'

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  Weather, Guy, Trying

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Family Guy, Sake, Offensive

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Drawing, Bases, Stills

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• 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.

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  Writing, Family Guy, Giving

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

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  Funny Graduation, Guy, Cheese

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• I don't smoke much pot anymore.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Weed, Pot, Smoke

  "MacFarlane Swears Off Marijuana" by Wenn.com, July 3, 2008.

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• [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.

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  Thinking, Self, Fcc

  Source: screenrant.com

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

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  Believe, Honor, Oscars

  "Seth MacFarlane Oscars Monologue: His Quotes From The Academy Awards". www.moviefone.com. February 24, 2013.

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Cosmos, Ends, Coming To An End

  Source: collider.com

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Stories, Firsts, Break

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Angel, Diversity

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

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  Income, Problem, Shows

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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

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  Ugly, Should

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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• You would not want me on your football team.

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  Football, Team, Want

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

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  Thinking, Musical, Film

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• 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.

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  Dream, Real, College

  "Oscars 2013: 25 Things to Know About Host Seth MacFarlane". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2013.

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

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  Family Guy, Littles, Wanted

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• 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.

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  School, College, High School

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

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  Artist, Cartoon, Hell

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• 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.

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  Want Something, Would Be, Oscars

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

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  Doctors, Sometimes, Brady Bunch

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• 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.'

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  Song, Python, Sound

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Dad, Kids, Car

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2013

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