Seth MacFarlane Quotes

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

I started out as a producer. and I used to work at Disney. and I worked with a lot of the animators and went on to become great friends with a lot of these guys and worked on a lot of projects together.

I always wanted to do animation.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.