Katey Sagal Quotations

There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

I think we respond well when we do something well.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

I was, I'm 5'9" now. By the time I was in seventh grade I was 5'7" and all the guys, the little boys, were coming up to my waist.

I think because of my music background actually I have sort of - comedy is about time and rhythm. And I sort of naturally fell towards comedy.

And you know, my schedule on television - actually my schedule with my kids is the real - is the one that I'm mostly married to. So I have a fun time.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

Now I'm both. I'm an actor and a singer.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

I was kind of lost for several years.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

Anytime I am asked to use my creativity as a way to be of service, I consider it an opportunity I cannot refuse. This experience was truly a pleasure. Scott's enthusiasm is infectious His voice is soothing and beautiful at the same time.

It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

I was very rebellious.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

I've never played a character that would sing.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.

I don't take story input from fans.

I don't like violence.

Going to set was always a great release.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I have this whole new audience now.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

I love to perform live.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

I love interpreting other people's music.

I really like sort of disappearing.