Patricia Heaton Quotes (51 Quotes)

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I'm sort of a slob.

(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband, Everybody Loves Raymond ... Motherhood Hollywood How to Get a Job Like Mine.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

I'm not good at accepting help.

rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

It's gotten an amazing reception. It's about the 50th anniversary of a little beauty pageant in a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania, ... It's a real homage to small-town America.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

We were developing the script right up to, and through, the first weeks of filming. I'd rehearse, then instead of being able to go back to the apartment and relax, I'd have to go to a script meeting or check one of the sets. It was hard, but it was really satisfying. I would love to produce something without also having to be the lead actor in it. I said at the wrap party, 'This has really been a wonderful experience ... and I never want to do it again' That's until the next time, of course.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

To have four kids - and to have been pregnant with two of them while I was working on the show - was a lot. I just can't believe I did it

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

My mom was a very intellectual person, and she would really rather be reading some philosophical or theological book than ironing.

I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

true love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history And how do you find both

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I was not an easy kid.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

She's ambitious and she's become very pragmatic, but her roots are in the family vineyard and in family. She's lost that a little bit, and she's been burned in romance and has taken this kind of no-nonsense approach to everything. Her life gets turned around when romance rears its ugly head. It's confusing to her.

Still, wine played a definite part in breaking the ice among the film's actors. At the getting-to-know-you cast dinners, we had a few bottles here and there, ... It's a little difficult when you have to be up at 5 a. m., trying to look halfway decent. I can't take a beating like I used to.

We're thinking now about adopting or having foster children, and if we did, I would look for a girl without a mother because I could relate to that.

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

The theme of the two-hour film is, What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it Is it that passionate, romantic, crazy feeling, or the history you build together over many years of being with each other ... Emotions run very high in this movie. It's like a comic opera.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

I really feel like we left no stone unturned as far as the show went. It was easy to leave in that sense. There was no unfinished business. It was a good nine years.

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do The book club. Theater. Having conversations.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone Or is it about years of commitment and history together Or is it both How do you find it, and how do you know It's a very complicated topic.

What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,