Quotes by Patricia Heaton

“In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The book club. Theater. Having conversations.”

“I love your show,”

“More kids? Its possible,”

“[(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Motherhood & Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine.”

“rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.”

“Whats really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,”

“That drives me nuts when they do that,”

“[The theme of the two-hour film is,] What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is it that passionate, romantic, crazy feeling, or the history you build together over many years of being with each other? ... Emotions run very high in this movie. Its like a comic opera.”

“And were still married to each other. Can you believe that?”

“true love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?”

Its 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 Im undressed in front of my husband.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt 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.

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

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

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. Thats what Christianity is.

Ive found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. Its sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.