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Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
Seth MacFarlane
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Seth MacFarlane
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 26
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I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. 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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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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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
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I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
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I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
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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 can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
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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.
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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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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You would not want me on your football team.
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'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
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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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There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
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Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.
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I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
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Character I want to be: Blunt Talk's.
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What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
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