Patricia Heaton Quotes

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.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

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.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

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.

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.

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

My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not good at accepting help.

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.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

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

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

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

Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!

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.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

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

I was not an easy kid.

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

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

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

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