Katey sagal quotes

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.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

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.

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.

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'm a pretty emotional person.

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

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

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

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 don't take story input from fans.

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

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

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

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

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.

Going to set was always a great release.

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

I made a living being a background singer for years.

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.

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

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

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

I've never played a character that would sing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 really like sort of disappearing.

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

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

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 love interpreting other people's music.

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

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

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

I was very rebellious.

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

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

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

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

I was kind of lost for several years.

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

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'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.

I have this whole new audience now.

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.

Anytime I am asked to use my creativity as a way to be of service, I consider it an opportunity I cannot refuse. This experience was truly a pleasure. Scott's enthusiasm is infectious His voice is soothing and beautiful at the same time.

I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

I don't like violence.