Patricia Heaton Quotes

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Normal, Disability, Parenting, Burden

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girls, Boy

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mothers In Laws, Birth

• I was not an easy kid.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Kid, Crazy

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fulfillment, Spotlight, Complete

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

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genes, Journalist

• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acknowledge, Rarely, Verbally, Hug

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

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood

• You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sick

• I’m sort of a slob.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slob, Myself

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

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security

• Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plastic Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery, Elephant, Elephants

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Organize, School

• Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idiots, Home

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ensemble, Hard

• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I’m undressed in front of my husband.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Witness, People

• I’m not good at accepting help.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Celebrity

• 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.

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Fired, Hire, Fun

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

  Patricia Heaton

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ray, Fun

Patricia Heaton (34)

Birth:	4th March, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model, Producer

About

Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress and producer. She is known for portraying Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and as Frances "Frankie" Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle.

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