Explore Quotes by Patricia Heaton

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

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

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

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

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

I'm not good at accepting help.

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

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

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.

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

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

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

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.