Patricia Heaton quotes

Patricia Heaton is an American actress best known for her roles in popular sitcoms such as "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle." Her comedic timing and warmth have made her a household name in television. She has won multiple Emmy Awards for her performances. Here are 46 of her quotes:

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.

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.

Patricia Heaton

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

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

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

Patricia Heaton

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

Patricia Heaton

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

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

Patricia Heaton

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Patricia Heaton

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

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

Patricia Heaton

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.

Patricia Heaton

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.

Patricia Heaton

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

Patricia Heaton

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

Patricia Heaton

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.

Patricia Heaton

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

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.

Patricia Heaton

I was not an easy kid.

Patricia Heaton

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

Patricia Heaton

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

Patricia Heaton

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