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.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
Because my mother died when I was young, I don't take anything for granted at all.
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.
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
But I would like to do at least one episode where Debra and Raymond really get along.
Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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 felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
I have a development deal with ABC.
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.
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.
I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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.
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
I was not an easy kid.
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.
I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
I'm not good at accepting help.
I'm sort of a slob.
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
I've learned how to pick out head lice - and I don't really mind doing it, which is scary.
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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.
It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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.
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.
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.
My mom was a very intellectual person, and she would really rather be reading some philosophical or theological book than ironing.
My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Of course, there are advantages to having your kids later - you can establish your career, and maybe you're more mature.
Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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.
The entertainment industry has become much more friendly toward women with children.
This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
To have four kids - and to have been pregnant with two of them while I was working on the show - was a lot. I just can't believe I did it!
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.
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're thinking now about adopting or having foster children, and if we did, I would look for a girl without a mother because I could relate to that.
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go." quoted in WOMAN"S WORLD (6-28-05
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
Went to St. Raphael's Catholic grade School, Bay Village, Ohio.
Daughter of Chuck Heaton, sportswriter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Her brother, Michael Heaton, who writes for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is getting involved in show business as a writer.
She has four sons with her husband David Hunt: Sam Hunt (b. 1994), John Basil Hunt (b. 1996), Joseph Charles 'Joe' Hunt (b. 1997) and Daniel Patrick 'Dan' Hunt (b. January 20th, 1999).
Graduate of Bay High School class of 1976.
While at Bay High School she sang in the choir, performed in the Stage Band, and was a member of the Rockettes Drill Team with the Bay Rockets' Marching Band.
Told "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) she was considering adopting a child. She already has four sons (none adopted). All four of her sons appear with her in the latest Jewel commercial when she's at home going over details of a party and her sons are all watching TV and checking off items she lists. [November 2001]
Graduated from Ohio State University in 1980 with a BA in Theater.
Honorary Chair of Feminists for Life - a nonsectarian, nonpartisan, grassroots organization established 30 years ago which opposes domestic violence, child abuse, infanticide, and abortion - the cause to which she was most passionately drawn.
She is a sister of the Delta Gamma sorority.
Spokeswoman for supermarkets owned by Alberstons, Inc., including Albertsons (West Coast, Rocky Mountain, Great Plains and Gulf Coast States), Acme Markets (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), and Jewel-Osco (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin).
Auditioned for the role as Elaine on "Seinfeld" (1990).
All of her children were born by Caesarian section. The damage to her body was repaired with plastic surgery.
According to Ray Romano, Patricia won the role of Debra on "Everybody Loves Raymond" (1996) because she was the only actress willing to kiss him at the auditions. It actually came down to a draw between her and Jane Sibbett - CBS liked Sibbett, but Romano preferred Patricia, who was much closer to how he pictured Debra, and the producers backed him up.
On the old "Everybody Loves Raymond" television site, Heaton listed Gary Oldman as her favorite actor.
In a 2006 TV Guide /Bravo poll, she was named the TV personality who would make the best real-life housewife with 72% of the vote, far surpassing runner-up Teri Hatcher from "Desperate Housewives".
Tony Shalhoub was the best man at Patty's wedding to David Hunt. Tony knew David before Patty came into the picture.
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