Top 35 Quotes by Ellen Pompeo

You know, Boston people are full of sauce.

Medicine is so fascinating.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Want is misery.