Top 45 Katey Sagal Quotes

I think we respond well when we do something well.

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

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

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

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

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.

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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.

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 don’t take story input from fans.

I was kind of lost for several years.

I don’t like violence.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 have this whole new audience now.

I’ve never played a character that would sing.

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.

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

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

I’m a pretty emotional person.

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

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn’t even there at the time.

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

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

I love to play gigs.

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

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

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

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.

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 like when everything’s naturally moving along – I find that pretty exciting.

I love interpreting other people’s music.

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