Words matter. These are the best Patricia Heaton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I think there’s a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you’re making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you’re just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that’s perfectly acceptable.
As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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.
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.
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
I’m sort of a slob.
I’m not good at accepting help.
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.
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.
I’ve always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that’s fine, too.
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.
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.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
My favorite body part? My feet. They’re not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
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.
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.
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.
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.