I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day. Ellen Pompeo More Quotes by Ellen Pompeo More Quotes From Ellen Pompeo 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. Ellen Pompeo girlfriend guy mean For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color. Ellen Pompeo color understanding important It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention. Ellen Pompeo husband baby giving I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men. Ellen Pompeo queens mother baby Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so! Ellen Pompeo thinking I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. Ellen Pompeo size pants pregnancy You know, Boston people are full of sauce. Ellen Pompeo boston sauce people Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world. Ellen Pompeo agendas thank-god real I don't like everybody who I see on TV. Ellen Pompeo tvs 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. Ellen Pompeo uncles new-york mother 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. Ellen Pompeo attention mean thinking People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose. Ellen Pompeo train-wrecks watches people Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives. Ellen Pompeo cancer Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls. Ellen Pompeo girl acting young Being a mother is magical. Ellen Pompeo being-a-mother mother I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. Ellen Pompeo nonfiction brain book I was never a person who was introduced to junk food. Ellen Pompeo junk-food junk persons 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? Ellen Pompeo grateful joy people 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. Ellen Pompeo hectic-schedule mom order It's gross. We use real brains - I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. 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. Ellen Pompeo eggs real thinking
