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Patricia Richardson Quotes
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~ Patricia Richardson Quote
I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
I didn't know what I'd find out. I don't think I realized until I started the process how painful it was going to be for me, really. Looking back, I've decided that I really grieved for the first time in my life - 42 years later.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
Col. Broughton was actually supposed to be in that airplane. He was supposed to fly that plane that morning and got called out to a meeting within 15 minutes of the time the flight was supposed to take off, and asked my father to fill in for him.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
Some of it was really sad, because a lot of it was from children who weren't getting enough attention and obviously identified with this family. I got a lot of mail from young men, which I thought was so bizarre. I kept thinking, "These are a lot of men with mother problems."
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
The whole journey has gotten me to that point where I felt sort of helpless in knowing this building and that there is nothing on it, especially for the kids who live there, to understand that this man gave the ultimate sacrifice and he left behind a family.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
When I was in college, I was told you can only love your craft. Baloney! Before I had Henry, I was so single-minded about acting that there was too much tension around my work. There was too much desperation to succeed
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
~ Patricia Richardson Quote
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family
~ Patricia Richardson Quote