Seth MacFarlane Quotes

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

There is always room for coincidence.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was running out of the house, and when I got halfway into the street, my mom saw the car and yelled for me to run back. As I turned around the car hit me, dragged me five houses down the road, and I fractured my collarbone.

Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

My first record was almost not my first record.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.