Quotes By Patricia Heaton

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.

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

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 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.

I'm not good at accepting help.

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.

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.

I'm sort of a slob.

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

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

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.

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.

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

I was not an easy kid.

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

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

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

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

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

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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