Ed MacFarlane Quotes

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The only problem is time.

'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.

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

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

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

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

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

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

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.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

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

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

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.

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.

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

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera and he guest-starred as himself.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

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.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

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.

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

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

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'.

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

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

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'