Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress. She is known for portraying Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and as Frances "Frankie" Heck on the ABC sitcom The Middle...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 March 1958
CityBay Village, OH
CountryUnited States of America
ohio journalism theater
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
commitment years together
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?
helping accepting
I'm not good at accepting help.
sorry feelings helping
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
couple years annoyed
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.
fun talking rays
I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
fun husband book
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.
summer kids four
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.
spotlight actresses needs
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.
nice school kids
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.
encounters week situation
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
people rude behavior
Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
apartment check developing experience instead lead love meeting next produce script until weeks wonderful wrap
We were developing the script right up to, and through, the first weeks of filming. I'd rehearse, then instead of being able to go back to the apartment and relax, I'd have to go to a script meeting or check one of the sets. It was hard, but it was really satisfying. I would love to produce something without also having to be the lead actor in it. I said at the wrap party, 'This has really been a wonderful experience ... and I never want to do it again!' That's until the next time, of course.
great people
What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,