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Katey Sagal [1954-0] American
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Athlete, Actress


Catherine Louise "Katey" Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Peggy Bundy, Al's sarcastic, lazy, bon bon-eating wife, on Married... with Children and for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. 

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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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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.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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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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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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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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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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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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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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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
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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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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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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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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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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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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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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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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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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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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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I love to perform live.
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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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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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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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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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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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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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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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I do a lot of writing about my family.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.
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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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I don't like violence.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done. Teacher
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I love TV.
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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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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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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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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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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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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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I love interpreting other people's music.
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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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I love to play gigs.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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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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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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I was very rebellious.
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