Patricia Heaton Quotes - Page 2

I was not an easy kid.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

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.

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?

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 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'm not good at accepting help.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

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

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.