Quotes By 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.

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 think we respond well when we do something well.

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 love to perform live.

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

I don't like violence.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

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.

I was kind of lost for several years.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

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'm a pretty emotional person.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.