This section contains Quotes by the world famous actress and celebrity Ellen Pompeo

I would say the surgery scenes are kind of gross. It smells. It is unpleasant. There are usually animal parts.

I wouldn’t say I was a good drink maker, but I was a very good hustler. I’d abuse the customers, yell and scream at them and make them wait. If they put money down on the bar and it wasn’t enough, I’d go wait on someone else who was giving me enough money. If they put another five down and I made them wait longer, pretty soon there would be $20 on the bar. Then I’d come over and give them a drink.

I’m not gonna have a big wedding. It’s not even gonna be necessarily a big event or anything like that. Very private. Just something between Chris and I. We want to have one thing for ourselves. You know. We want to have fun. We have a goal of trying to keep our marriage a secret for 24 hours. We’re gonna try to keep that. That’s our goal.

It’s pretty remarkable how many people the show touches... I think we are very lucky in that way so, I love when the fans come up to us because they usually have really interesting stories. We are very grateful to the fans, we would have no show without them, you know? You could have the best writing in the world, and you could have the best acting in the world, but if the fans don’t tune in every week, there’s no show. So, I think we have them to be the most thankful for.

It's awkward with Patrick because he's like my brother. As soon as the camera is off, I'm like, "Is your hand on my butt?" But there are millions of girls who have been waiting for this, so I feel an obligation to the fans.

My mother storyline you know, it’s so rich. And I have Kate Burton who’s extraordinary, and I couldn’t ask for a better partner...I already miss my scenes with her. Maybe I’ll go to heaven again and see her or something, you never know!

One episode I could be completely happy and the next episode I'm trying to commit suicide. Of course it was a surprise and then I just had to figure out how Meredith got to that place and hope the audience would stay with me. I think what was frustrating was after that near-death experience when she had this revelation that Derek was a great guy and she wanted to live for him, then she comes back and everything goes back to normal. It didn't seem to have taken me anywhere significantly, which is why I think the whole three-part ferry episode was just a distraction from what was going on with Isaiah and everything behind the scenes on our show at the time.

Patrick is very adorable, but very married in real life. I'm very good friends with his wife.

She wasn't much of a student, and that certainly was me. The fact that I'm convincing is a huge triumph for me because I'm not that [kind of] book person. I adore books but on my time and not in a classroom. I was very restless. I'm a gypsy at heart. As soon as I turned 18, I started traveling.

She's smart enough to make her way through medical school but she can't figure out that she can't sleep with strangers all the time.

The chemistry between the cast is very important. We're a family and have respect for each other. And we have fun, which comes across.

The thing about series television is that is very difficult the aspect of never knowing where your character is going or where she’ll end up. You know, we have no idea where the end of this is. Or what the end of each season is, for that matter. I guess it’s made me a more adaptable actor, you know you sort of have to be more creative.

They force me to work with him. They offered me more money to put up with him, so I agreed.

This is about having sex in closets with other doctors and having free time.

To make it look believable they really have to pump on your chest. And after a while, of course your heart does respond. So my heart, I had, kept having this, like, palpitations. It’s making me feel really strange to have people do CPR on me for hours and hours at the time. I don’t think it’s that great for you. So after the first day, I told Rob, who is directing the episodes, I said “You have to get me some sort of, you know, chest plate”. So they got this plastic chest plates. I think they used the ones from, that the girls used for Charlie’s Angels. They had 3 sort of busts and I think I got Demi’s, and I wore that, under all the blankets so when they were doing CPR on me I didn’t really have to feel the impact. So that made things a lot better for me.

You never know, sort of, when they explain the stunt you say “Oh, that sounds really simple and I can do that, it’s no problem. I sort of figured that I was just going to fall back on a mat, you know and that it will look fine. But you feet have to disappear. And you know the guys who come and do the stunts, they know so much about it and they make you feel so safe. So it’s just fun, and you get to be on location and do something different.

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