Ed MacFarlane Quotes

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

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

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

You would not want me on your football team.

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.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

I distrust all television doctors.

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

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.

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

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'.

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.