A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.


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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