Quotes from Ellen Pompeo

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

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.

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

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.

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

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.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

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

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.

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.

Want is misery.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

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.

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

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

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

Being a mother is magical.

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