Ellen Pompeo Quotes

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

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

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

Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.

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

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

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

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

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

Medicine is so fascinating.

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

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.

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.

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

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

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

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

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

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

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.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

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

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

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

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

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

Being a mother is magical.

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

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.

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

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.

I am who I am, a Southie.

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.