Quotes By Patricia Heaton

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 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.

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

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

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

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.