Ellen Pompeo Quotes

I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so!

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win ...

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

I'm the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

I don't like everybody who I see on TV.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Medicine is so fascinating.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.