Quotes from Patricia Heaton


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I was not an easy kid.


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.


There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.


I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.


I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.


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 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.


My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.


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


I'm not good at accepting help.


I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.


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


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


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


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


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


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


From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.


What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.


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.