Patricia Heaton quote: "[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. It's like a comic opera."

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales....
PATRICIA HEATON

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they&#...
PATRICIA HEATON

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process...
PATRICIA HEATON

My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
PATRICIA HEATON

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does regi...
PATRICIA HEATON

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you d...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

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

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books ...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at ...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

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

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced,...
PATRICIA HEATON

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless...
PATRICIA HEATON

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
PATRICIA HEATON

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal...
PATRICIA HEATON

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness ...
PATRICIA HEATON

Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death....
PATRICIA HEATON

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. The...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

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

[(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Every...
PATRICIA HEATON

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

That drives me nuts when they do that,
PATRICIA HEATON

when you're working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-ho...
PATRICIA HEATON

true love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and ...
PATRICIA HEATON

And we're still married to each other. Can you believe that?
PATRICIA HEATON

What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,
PATRICIA HEATON

rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.
PATRICIA HEATON

More kids? It's possible,
PATRICIA HEATON

I love your show,
PATRICIA HEATON

In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The boo...
PATRICIA HEATON

I'm sort of a slob.
PATRICIA HEATON

I am often asked “Why do Southerners still care about the Civil War?”… Because it is unique in...
TIM HEATON

I'm still waiting for him to ask [on boyfriend Andy Scott-Lee]. We have talked about marriage and it...
MICHELLE HEATON

It's a smaller fruit, so when you're feeding just one or two people it's easier to manipulate.
GEORGE HEATON

I can't really talk as to what they're considering doing because there's too many things on the tabl...
NANCY HEATON

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
MARY HEATON VORSE

Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon
ROSE HENNIKER HEATON

What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.
REP. DAVE HEATON

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN

I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER

I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to s...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scatte...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami...
PATRICIA RAE

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace...
PATRICIA RAE

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo...
PATRICIA RAE

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
PATRICIA POLACCO

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO

Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat...
PATRICIA POLACCO

Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart...
PATRICIA POLACCO

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
PATRICIA POLACCO

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
PATRICIA POLACCO

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO

Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO

Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS

I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL

Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT

What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT

I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT

I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT

I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT

While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT

I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX

New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX

I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX

Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX

It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX

'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX

[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. It's like a comic opera.

Patricia Heaton

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