Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American television producer, filmmaker, actor, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres. He is the creator of the TV series Family Guy, co-creator of the TV series American Dad!and The Cleveland Show, and writer-director of the films Ted, its sequel Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth26 October 1973
CityKent, CT
CountryUnited States of America
You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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.
Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".
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.
[With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
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.
If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.