Quotes from Seth MacFarlane

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

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.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

I'm bad at golf.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

The only problem is time.

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.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

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.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

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

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

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.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

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 something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.

I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?

You gotta keep the funny intact.

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 the hardest dialect to nail.

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.

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.

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

You would not want me on your football team.