Katey Sagal Quotes

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

I was very rebellious.

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

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a pretty emotional person.

I don't like violence.

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.

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 really like sort of disappearing.

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

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.

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.

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 loved anybody the way I love my children.

I love interpreting other people's music.

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

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

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

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

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

I was kind of lost for several years.

I've never played a character that would sing.

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

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

Going to set was always a great release.

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

I think I'm a soulful singer.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

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

I don't take story input from fans.

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

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.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

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

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

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

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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

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

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

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.

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.