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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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" 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

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

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

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

" I was a big Fred Flintstone fan. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'. "

" 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 still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis. "

" 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 were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup. "

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

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

Seth MacFarlane

Drives

Car

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

" I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it. "

" With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. "

" 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

Jokes

" 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.' "

" The only problem is time. "

" 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. "

" There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. "

" I was a film major with a concentration in animation. "

" 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. "

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

Seth MacFarlane

Started

Music

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

Seth MacFarlane

Toes

Challenged