Quotes from Seth MacFarlane

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

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.

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.

On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what time allows. Twitter, priority-wise, has to come after the work is done.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

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

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

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

'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.

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

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

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.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.