Katey Sagal Quotes

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

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

I was very rebellious.

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 don't like violence.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

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.

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 really like sort of disappearing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I love interpreting other people's music.

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

I've never played a character that would sing.

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

I don't take story input from fans.

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 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 we respond well when we do something well.

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've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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

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

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

I made a living being a background singer for years.

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

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Going to set was always a great release.

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

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.