You gotta keep the funny intact. — Seth Macfarlane

If something is shocking without being funny it’s hard to justify. — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane

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.’ — Seth Macfarlane

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

The Simpsons are ugly–looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny. — Seth Macfarlane

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones’ laugh begins now. — Seth Macfarlane

Science has become politicized, and that’s an embarrassment. — Seth Macfarlane

The resistance to science is idiotic. — Seth Macfarlane

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It’s too bad because it’s so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science. — Seth Macfarlane

Every woman’s innate ability to let anything go. — Seth Macfarlane

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

There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, ‘whoa!’ — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis. — Seth Macfarlane

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

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

I don’t know that anyone ever really expected thIs show to go thIs long. — Seth Macfarlane

I distrust all television doctors. — Seth Macfarlane

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

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan. — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna–Barbera. — Seth Macfarlane

The only problem is time. — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane

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

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters. — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane

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

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

The Brady Bunch’ asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered. — Seth Macfarlane

American Dad’ is, by its nature, much more political. — Seth Macfarlane

With any half–hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. — Seth Macfarlane

Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn’t. Morality exists in animals, ya know. — Seth Macfarlane

You would not want me on your football team. — Seth Macfarlane

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy. — Seth Macfarlane

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you’re a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago. — Seth Macfarlane

When ‘Family Guy’ started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. — Seth Macfarlane

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. — Seth Macfarlane