Top 25 Chandra Wilson Quotes

Patrick Dempsey will forever be known as ‘Grey’s Anatomy”s McDreamy.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn’t give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It’s not a spread-open-the-arms, ‘come here’ hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

You’re not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh – to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I’ve tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There’s something wrong with that.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.

I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.

I keep getting amazing things to bring to life. There’s always something to discover with ‘Dr. Bailey,’ something that brings her home to the audience, something that makes people say, ‘I know that woman. I work with that woman.’ It’s incredibly flattering and I’m still finding new things with her all the time.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren’t necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

Shonda and ‘Grey’s’ have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that’s something that I hadn’t really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I’ve got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.

If I want to know how I’m doing at work, I don’t wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.

I’m a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that – like a cartoon.

I’ve watched ‘General Hospital’ for 35 years. I grew up with it. It holds such a place in my heart.

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn’t win that one, but that didn’t stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.

‘Grey’s’ is one of those shows… that’s been able to ride so many waves.

This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can’t fall into the pitfalls of thinking you’re secure. If it’s not a firing, it’s a strike.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

When someone new takes over a role, the company doesn’t change anything from the script, but they do lay it all out there and let people take from it what they take from it.

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called ‘The Forbidden City,’ where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

I don’t have to be a star – I don’t have to be famous.

Before ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, ‘If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.’

I worked at Deutsche Bank for about eight years on their overnight shift. I was working consistently in the theater. I just wanted to know that my rent was going to be paid on time!