Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

Stand by Me (2009)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

Quotes 

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [closing voiceover]  Practicing medicine doesn't lend itself well to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because, in staring down death every day, we're forced to know that life, every minute, is borrowed time. And each person we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don't bother making friends at all, but the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line to push each loss as far away as we can.

• Intern Pierce : [walks over to Meredith and Cristina with a black eye]  Lab results for the splenectomy.

  [walks off] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Do we ask?

  Dr. Cristina Yang : No, 'cause he might tell us.

• Kendall Sully : [about the interns]  I'm sorry. I'm trying to listen, but are they supposed to look like that?

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Like what?

  Kendall Sully : The bleeding and the shiner and that one looks like she's suicidal. They're supposed to be doctors?

  Dr. George O'Malley : We're going to reserve judgement on that right now.

• Dr. George O'Malley : [to Meredith]  Mer, there is something wrong with Izzie.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Ah, what do you mean?

  Dr. George O'Malley : I don't know. All I know that there is something wrong.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Well, you know, George, we're already drowning in intern drama. We don't need resident drama, too. If it's a problem, she'll tell us. Until, just ignore it.

  [Steve limps by them] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : I repeat, ignore it.

  Dr. Miranda Bailey : [walks over to George and Meredith]  What in God's name is going on?

  Dr. Meredith Grey : It's a personal issue and we are just trying to give them their privacy.

  Dr. Miranda Bailey : Do you think for a second I wanted to get involved with your little intern dramas?

  Dr. George O'Malley : [scoffs]  We were not this bad.

  Dr. Miranda Bailey : Oh, getting married in Vegas, shacking up with attendings, cutting LVAD wires. You don't have to like it, but you have to manage it.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Oh, we've got it under control.

  Intern Steve : [Megan runs down the stairs crying]  Wait, I love you, Megan!

  [Bailey glares at Meredith and George] 

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Steve and Megan]  Whatever it is the two of you have going on, it stops now.

  Intern Steve : I didn't...

  Dr. George O'Malley : I don't think you should talk when she's talking.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : You are scaring the patients and you're making this hospital look ridiculous, and you're making us look incompetent.

  Intern Steve : No, but we have...

  Dr. George O'Malley : That's not a good idea.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Just stay away from each other. So much as a tear or a glance at each other's direction and it's over.

  Intern Megan : I don't understand...

  Dr. Meredith Grey : No, no, no. Don't talk while I'm talking. Now just get out. Go.

  [Steve and Megan leave] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Not together.

  [to George] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Oh, that felt good.

• Dr. George O'Malley : [to Pierce, Megan and Steve]  This is year one of your residency. You turn on each other now, you're not gonna make it.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Okay, here's what's gonna happen. All of you are going to go and find the sense that the Good Lord gave you and never behave like this within the four walls of this hospital ever again. You are doctors. Pierce, get an ice pack and put it on that oozing, disgusting, mess of an eye. And Steve, go to the pit and get that unsanitary, bloody hand x-rayed and stitched. And Megan, you should go to OB because yes, you are pregnant.

  Dr. George O'Malley : [as he and Meredith are walking out]  That was very Bailey.

• Dr. George O'Malley : [to Ryan]  Hey, buddy. You need to start talking and you need to start talking now.

  Dr. Ryan Spalding : I really can't. Talk to Steve.

  Dr. George O'Malley : Right, guy. You need to start talking, dude, because any second they're gonna start that face transplant surgery and then her good friend...

  Dr. Meredith Grey : My best friend.

  Dr. George O'Malley : Is gonna have her very first solo surgery, and so we have very little patience right now.

  Dr. Ryan Spalding : Look, it's not my place.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Okay, you are gonna tell me everything that's going on or else, every time I have a rectal exam or an infected abscess is gonna have your name on it. Every time!

  Dr. Ryan Spalding : Megan was with Pierce, but they broke up for a little bit and while they were broken up, she slept with Steve. Then she got back together with Pierce, but Steve sent her an email about how they slept together and instead of just emailing her, he hit reply all. It went to a whole bunch of people, one of them was Pierce and, now Steve says he loves her, Pierce wants to kill him, Megan's like really freaking out right... because... oh... ok wait, so... A while back, someone sent this text message right, and like I didn't get it. I didn't get to see it. It just came, to certain people's phone, you know.