Katey Sagal Quotes

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

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

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

I have this whole new audience now.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

I don't think Peg Bundy was very much like Katey Sagal. Definitely the wardrobe Gemma from Sons of Anarchy wears might be a little more like Katey Sagal. I mean, any time you play anything, there's pieces of yourself that you're kind of elaborating on. I mean, you're using parts of yourself.

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.

I loved Married With Children. That was the job that against all odds - you know, when I first read the script, I thought, "No one will ever watch this, but I think this is so fun." So I was really happy to be involved in it. And we laughed every single day. It was the funniest 11 years. We really, really enjoyed it.

I was very rebellious.

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

I was kind of lost for several years.

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.

I don't like violence.

I don't take story input from fans.