Quotes from Ellen Pompeo

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

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.

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

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

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

Medicine is so fascinating.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

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

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

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

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

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

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.

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.