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" If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical. "

Seth MacFarlane

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" You would not want me on your football team. "

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" 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. "

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" The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. "

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" 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. "

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" I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'. "

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" The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now. "

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

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" 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.' "

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

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" There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing. "

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" Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. "

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

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