Katey Sagal Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Katey Sagal

I love to play gigs. — Katey Sagal

I was kind of lost for several years. — Katey Sagal

I think I'm a soulful singer. — Katey Sagal

I do a lot of writing about my family. — Katey Sagal

I made a living being a background singer for years. — Katey Sagal

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

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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

My parents were very artistic, but busy. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

I don't take story input from fans. — Katey Sagal

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

You realize mortality is everywhere. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

I love to perform live. — Katey Sagal

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

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

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

I love interpreting other people's music. — Katey Sagal

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

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm. — Katey Sagal

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

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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

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

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

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

I've never played a character that would sing. — Katey Sagal

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

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

Going to set was always a great release. — Katey Sagal

I have this whole new audience now. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

I really like sort of disappearing. — Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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

I don't like violence. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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

I'm a pretty emotional person. — Katey Sagal

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. — Katey Sagal

I think we respond well when we do something well. — Katey Sagal

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

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. — Katey Sagal

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

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