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" I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country. "
Seth MacFarlane
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" When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. "
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" You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty. "
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" I was a film major with a concentration in animation. "
Seth MacFarlane
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Major
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" I was a big Fred Flintstone fan. "
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Fred
" 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. "
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Mother
Same
" 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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Future
Loved
Hope
" If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical. "
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I Think
Film
Were
" 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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Should
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Things
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
School
College
Always
" If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify. "
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Hard
Being
Being Funny
" Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. "
Seth MacFarlane
Believe
You
Care
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Writing
Slow
You
" You gotta keep the funny intact. "
Seth MacFarlane
Intact
Funny
Gotta
" The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done. "
Seth MacFarlane
You
Broadway
About
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Worst
Want
Out
" There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing. "
Seth MacFarlane
Single
Very
Things
" There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. "
Seth MacFarlane
Knowledge
People
Faith
" When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. "
Seth MacFarlane
Started
Music
More
" Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it. "
Seth MacFarlane
Big Fan
Big
Much
" Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. "
Seth MacFarlane
Believe
You
Success
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Dinner
Internet
World
" Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. "
Seth MacFarlane
Morning
More
Jokes
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Kind
Car
Know
" 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.' "
Seth MacFarlane
Weather
Always
Listen
" I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera. "
Seth MacFarlane
Bravo
Wrote
Show
" The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. "
Seth MacFarlane
Show
Budget
Money
" The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now. "
Seth MacFarlane
Now
Laugh
Lee
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Better
You
Work
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Time
Day
Done
" 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. "
Seth MacFarlane
Family
New
Sick