Top 30 Ellen Pompeo Quotes

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

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

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.

I am who I am, a Southie.

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.

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

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

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 was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

Want is misery.

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

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 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.

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

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.

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

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.

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?

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

Being a mother is magical.

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.

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

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

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

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.

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