Words matter. These are the best Ellen Pompeo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being a mother is the most fun job I’ve ever had.
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.
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 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 don’t believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.
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.
Medicine is so fascinating.
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.
Want is misery.
Cancer is something that touches everyone’s lives.
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.
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.
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 just don’t want to be self-obsessed.
I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.
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.
I don’t like everybody who I see on TV.
Really, I don’t care if people think I’m too skinny. This is my body. If they don’t like it, screw it.
