Patricia Richardson
Related JEANNETTE WALLS My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It ... CANDIS CAYNE BRUCE WILLIS BRUCE WILLIS I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav... TITUSS BURGESS DAVID SOUL I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou... MICKY DOLENZ I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH BEN AFFLECK It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I... ALANNA UBACH I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall... LAURA TROTT I had some butterflies in my system before the game. But once I got into a rhythm, I was fine. I was... JORDAN WILLIAMS I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable n... MARY CROSBY But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi... JOHN BOYNE We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha... J. J. FIELD I was a little rusty and nervous. But I got focused and hit 11. I'd been telling my parents I was ti... JEN NICHOLS The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ... CAMPBELL SCOTT DARRELL ROYAL JAMES D. WATSON MARK WAHLBERG FRANKA POTENTE GLORIA ESTEFAN DUSTIN HOFFMAN The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti... CAMPBELL SCOTT I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can ha... BRITT ROBERTSON AMANDA HOLDEN The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my dicti... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ DOROTHY ALLISON JANE LEVY CHUCK NORRIS My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I co... CLARON MCFADDEN He told me I would heal slower and I would be more prone to infection. But I've been through three s... ROBERT RANDALL I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I... HANNAH WARE I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a... DAVID FURNISH I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g... ALEX BORSTEIN ITZHAK PERLMAN I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got ... ANNA BENSON NIGEL HAMILTON I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual... ELIZABETH MARVEL I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ... GABRIELLE UNION DOMINIC MONAGHAN I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s... FIONA GUBELMANN I was a sickly child and couldn't digest food. Preparing food for me was a challenge for my mother, ... KARLA LOPEZ I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to... PAUL SIMONON ACTION BRONSON BOBBY ORR Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a... MEGAN PARK ANNA DEAVERE SMITH ADAM BEACH As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by put... IAN GOMEZ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART GARY JOHNSON I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p... EMILY BROWNING NICHOLAS SPARKS CHELSEA HANDLER That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT JENNIFER EHLE I've always loved to learn. I've always enjoyed school, and it might have gotten me into trouble wit... BEN CLABO I ponder to myself, ... this could be my last couple of starts, or the last one. It was a real hard ... ROGER CLEMENS EMRAAN HASHMI I don't think my parents treated us any differently. I'm older now, but if you had asked me while I ... MARCY WILLIAMS I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments. AGNES OBEL GLORIA GAYNOR I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this hono... GERONIMO I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ... (I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got cau... BERNIE MAC AMY CHUA I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom... SKYLAR ASTIN Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a care... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER The CFL made me a more versatile QB because of all the things you had to do once you got on the fiel... WARREN MOON JESSICA ST. CLAIR TONY HAWK TRACY CHAPMAN The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been... BILLY CAMPBELL Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children,... EYDIE GORME Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced... GARY NUMAN I have a lot of energy. I knew the odds were against us but I knew I had to do something else becaus... ANNMARIE MORSE MARA WILSON When I was a child, I didn’t have any watch but all my friends had, but now today I have a watch b... VIKRANT PARSAI DWAYNE JOHNSON If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my n... CHARLES PORTIS CLINT EASTWOOD GAIL DEVERS CHELSEA HANDLER I'm not ashamed of wanting somebody to love -- I never have been, because I had it once. But maybe I... ALLY MCBEAL THéOPHILE GAUTIER For the first 15 years I never had problems with parents. Now, I have. It was about playing time, an... JACKIE DINARDO I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr... LUCY GRIFFITHS I never had any problems with the heat. My baby was giving me the thumbs up all day. LAURA DIAZ JULIETTE LEWIS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind autom... DANIEL HANDLER I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were ve... NAVEEN ANDREWS ROBERT WILSON My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I... MAGGIE ROWE I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ JOHN C. REILLY
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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 Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and f... SALLI RICHARDSON I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the directo... SALLI RICHARDSON I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes. SALLI RICHARDSON When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie! SALLI RICHARDSON There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.' SALLI RICHARDSON When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deep... SALLI RICHARDSON 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand ... SALLI RICHARDSON You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow. SALLI RICHARDSON I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me. 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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. 
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa... 
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I go... 
I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him a... 
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's... 
All the pressure I ever had was self-imposed. I never had any pressure put on me to win. I felt that... 
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh... 
It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling... 
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our... 
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what w... 
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of ... 
I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once. 
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. T... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 
When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights again... 
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. 
In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel... 
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I f... 
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl... 
The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents o... 
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That w... 
When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a... 
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enoug... 
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every... 
For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook... 
I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money ... 
Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... 
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambiti... 
As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had a... 
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem... 
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had ... 
We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'... 
I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood di... 
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do ... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had g... 
My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending mo... 
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p... 
I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I... 
My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sister... 
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. 
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. 
I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any word... 
I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... 
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. 
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. 
The most precious things in speech are pauses. 
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade... 
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly... 
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. 
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. 
Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a h... 
It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that p... 