Seth MacFarlane Quotes

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

… an anomalous, not to say scandalous, condition.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.

The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.

I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.

I personally do not find puke funny. I find it disgusting.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

I consider your remarks highly offensive to me and to those with whom I have been working.

The idea of making them take the oath is absurd.

There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

Do I ever get questions that are rude or impertinent? Yes, but I love to use them. The audience immediately perceives the emotional awkwardness of the situation.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

That's kind of a classless move to celebrate when a guy is injured.

The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.

Horrific things should be presented as horrific.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

You don't expect to be touched by comedy. But when it happens, it's beautiful.