Katey Sagal Quotes

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.