Seth MacFarlane Quotes

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• 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'

  Seth MacFarlane

  Atheist, Believe, Men

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Party, Elephants, Two

  "Family Guy". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Reason, Accepting, Dies

  "Family Guy (Road to Europe)". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Children, Acting, Adults

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The only problem is time.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Problem

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• '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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Hate, Family Guy, People

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

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Laughing, Sake, Shock

  Source: collider.com

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• Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Missing, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Religious, Years, Two

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

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Brain, Toes, Make Me Happy

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Two, Voice

  Source: collider.com

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  People, Advancement, Vocal

  "Hungover with Seth MacFarlane". Interview with Stacey Grenrock Woods, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2009.

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Justify, Being Funny, Shocking

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Jobs, Writing, Strange Places

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Space, Doe

  "Seth MacFarlane on hosting the Oscars, being hated by 'South Park'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Animal, Morality, Claims

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• You gotta keep the funny intact.

  Seth MacFarlane

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

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Stars, Growing Up, Drama

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Fun, Hero, Guy

  Seth MacFarlane (2014). “A Million Ways to Die in the West”, p.53, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Running, Fire, Pro Life

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Media, Outrage, Presses

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  America, People, Rejection

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Mother, School, Childhood

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

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

  Seth MacFarlane

  Art, Eye, Good Art

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• 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.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Kids, Doors, Television

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