Seth MacFarlane Quotes

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• I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
• I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
• If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
• Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
• 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
• The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.
• The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.
• The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
• 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.
• When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
• When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
• With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
• You gotta keep the funny intact.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…

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