Patricia Heaton

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

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.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

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.

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.

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

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

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

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.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

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.