Seth MacFarlane

“The only problem is time.”

“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 g...”

“The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.”

“'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.”

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

“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...”

“I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.”

“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 th...”

“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 court...”

“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 somet...”

“Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.”

“People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.”

“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...”

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

“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.”

“You would not want me on your football team.”

“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...”

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

“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.”

“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.”