Patricia Heaton Quotes
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I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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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.
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I felt like I was on another planet for 9 years, where everyone worshipped me, and I was a goddess!
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People inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband, Everybody Loves Raymond ... Motherhood & Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine.
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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.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.
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I've learned how to pick out head lice - and I don't really mind doing it, which is scary.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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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.
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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.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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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?
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And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
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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.
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Of course, there are advantages to having your kids later - you can establish your career, and maybe you're more mature.
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The role of Debra is different from your typical housewife in that she lies, she's a bad cook, she has PMS, she's unreasonable like any woman. But I would like to do at least one episode where Debra and Raymond really get along.
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The entertainment industry has become much more friendly toward women with children.
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You know, I was meant to have boys, because I love doing the paintball, the sports, and all that. I enjoy that. I like the physical stuff.
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Rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls
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But I would like to do at least one episode where Debra and Raymond really get along.
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People of all kinds have come up to me and told me that they identify so much with Ray and Debra, or with Debra and Marie's relationship, and I think it's probably because we started out with such rich characters.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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And we're still married to each other. Can you believe that?
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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
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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.
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We're thinking now about adopting or having foster children, and if we did, I would look for a girl without a mother because I could relate to that.
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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.
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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.
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I have a development deal with ABC.
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My kids are big fans of the movie Young Frankenstein, and one day, I took them to the set of Raymond with me. I pointed to Peter Boyle and said, "That's Frankenstein!" And Peter would just chase them around the set, growling. He was so wonderful. There is talk of a reunion sometimes, but it just wouldn't be the same without Peter.
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When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
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The reason that women can go to work, and pick up the dry cleaning, and plan the vacations, and help with the school projects, is because we are very good at compartmentalizing, because we have to. It's the way it is. We have to do every friggin' thing.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them.
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My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Every 36 seconds in America a women 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.
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The theme of the two-hour film is, What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is it that passionate, romantic, crazy feeling, or the history you build together over many years of being with each other? ... Emotions run very high in this movie. It's like a comic opera.
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What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh.
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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.
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Because my mother died when I was young, I don't take anything for granted at all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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If you're married, and especially if you have kids......no, listen, just if you're in a family, then you "get" this. And I have to confess, Robert has always been my favorite character on the show, because he's so sweet, ans so well-intentioned, and so put-upon, and he's so......he never gets the upper hand, ever, ever, ever.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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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.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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My mom was a very intellectual person, and she would really rather be reading some philosophical or theological book than ironing.
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If Romeo and Juliet hadn't killed themselves, they'd be bickering just like Ray and Debra.
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I don't bleed or scar, and painkillers don't make me nauseated. I could operate heavy machinery on Percoset.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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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.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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To have four kids - and to have been pregnant with two of them while I was working on the show - was a lot. I just can't believe I did it!
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