Quotes By 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.

I really like sort of disappearing.

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

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

I don't like violence.

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.

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

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.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

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

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

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

I made a living being a background singer for years.

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.