Top 75 Katey Sagal Quotes
#1. I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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#2. 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
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#3. You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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#4. I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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#8. 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.
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#10. I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.
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#12. I made a living being a background singer for years.
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#13. I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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#14. Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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#17. 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.
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#18. We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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#19. Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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#22. I think we respond well when we do something well.
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#24. I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.
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#29. My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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#30. I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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#32. You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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#35. I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
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#37. It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.
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#38. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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#42. I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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#43. And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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#44. 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.
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#45. My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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#51. Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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#52. I love interpreting other people's music.
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#53. I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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#54. And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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#57. Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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#62. 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.
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#63. There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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#64. 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.
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#65. I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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#66. I do a lot of writing about my family.
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#67. I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.
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#70. Going to set was always a great release.
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#71. I've never played a character that would sing.
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#72. 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.
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#73. It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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#74. There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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#75. 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.
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