Top 60 Katey Sagal Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’ve never loved anybody the way I love my children.”

— Katey Sagal

2. “I don’t like violence.”

— Katey Sagal

3. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

4. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

5. “I love interpreting other people’s music.”

— Katey Sagal

6. “I’ve certainly experienced physical pain in my life.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

8. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

10. “I think we respond well when we do something well.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

13. “I love to perform live.”

— Katey Sagal

14. “I’m a pretty emotional person.”

— Katey Sagal

15. “I was very rebellious.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

19. “Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.”

— Katey Sagal

20. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

21. “I was kind of lost for several years.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

23. “I really like sort of disappearing.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

25. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

27. “My thing about having another child was, time’s-a-wasting!”

— Katey Sagal

28. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

29. “There isn’t a lot written about the motorcycle culture.”

— Katey Sagal

30. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

31. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

32. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

33. “I don’t take story input from fans.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

36. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

37. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

38. “I didn’t actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.”

— Katey Sagal

39. “I made a living being a background singer for years.”

— Katey Sagal

40. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

41. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

42. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

43. “Each time I seem to go through one of life’s huge things, I want to play music.”

— Katey Sagal

44. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

45. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal

48. “I think I’m a soulful singer.”

— Katey Sagal

49. “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.”

— Katey Sagal

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

— Katey Sagal