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
Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.
You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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.
Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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.
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.
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.
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.
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.