Seth MacFarlane Quotes
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The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.
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Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
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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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I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
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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.
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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.
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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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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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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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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.
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Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
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I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.
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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.
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.
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Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
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The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
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The only problem is time.
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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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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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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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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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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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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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[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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The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
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