"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."

“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.”

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

Source : "Katey Sagal talks about Gemma's difficult journey on 'Sons of Anarchy'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. September 09, 2009.

“Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.”

“So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.”

“Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.”

“There is such a shelter in each other.”

Source : "Pedigree". Poem by by Nick Laird,

“I don't do the same show on any two nights.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”