Quotes by Patricia Heaton

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

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 sort of a slob.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.