Explore Quotes by Seth Macfarlane

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

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

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.

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.

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

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

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

'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.