Patricia Heaton

“I'm sort of a slob.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”