I really feel like we left no stone unturned as far as the show went. It was easy to leave in that sense. There was no unfinished business. It was a good nine years.

I was not an easy kid.

[The theme of the two-hour film is,] What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is it that passionate, romantic, crazy feeling, or the history you build together over...

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.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

That drives me nuts when they do that,

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.

And we’re still married to each other. Can you believe that?

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

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

It had a ‘Moonstruck’ quality to the comedy – very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera. It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that...

I’m always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

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...

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...

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.

[(PEOPLE) — Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Everybody Loves Raymond … Motherhood & Hollywood: How to Get a Job Like Mine.

I’m not good at accepting help.

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...

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!

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.

[The Heartland Film Festival says] Everybody Loves Raymond … The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania.

I’m sort of a slob.

when you’re working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-hour days. That’s the other thing; I was used to working six hours a day, four...

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...

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...

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...

I’ve always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

[Still, wine played a definite part in breaking the ice among the film’s actors.] At the getting-to-know-you cast dinners, we had a few bottles here and there, … It’s a little difficult when you have...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

I love your show,

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

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I’m a little guarded and hardened to that.

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

More kids? It’s possible,

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...

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

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

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...

rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.

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...

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.