q u o t e s
One day my 3-year-old daughter said, 'You're very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

Patrick is the kind of guy who rolls out of bed and is adorable and sexy without effort. ~ Katherine Heigl

I knew from the moment I saw her[Jill] that I had a connection to her I couldn't quite describe.
I thought she was absolutely beautiful and had amazing eyes.

He's gorgeous, he's got a great body, and he's got damn fine hair! ~ Ellen Pompeo

The first time I was successful, when I was in my 20s, I was never comfortable with my success.
Not that I'm so comfortable now, but I realize that it's a day-to-day process and I'm a work in progress.

Patrick is just wonderful. He's a great guy. We have a great time working together. ~ Kate Walsh

In real life defining romance is very tricky. It's not just candles and flowers. The secret to keeping the spark alive?
The eyes. I was always taken by them. They're warm, sparkly eyes. That's the most beautiful part of someone.


I'm just enjoying life more than I ever have. I've worked hard to get to this point in my relationship and my career.
I understand how fortunate we are to have the phenomenon that's happening with Grey's Anatomy.
I'm trying to enjoy the moment while it's here and be able to provide for my family,
so that I can step away and enjoy raising them away from all this. For me, being a dad is the meaning of life.


- Patrick on his popularity affecting his wife -
If someone acts inappropriately or suggestively towards me, it grates on her. I mean, I'm a married man
and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy individual.
I'm trying to just have a calm family life, to make my marriage work.


- Patrick on racing -
It's a very Zen experience. You're so in the moment. For me, it's the only place where I really can relax
and calm down.


- Patrick on opening a center for cancer patients in Maine -
Celebrity in itself is not that fabulous, but if you can use it to help make a change, it's great.
Maine is part of the core of who I am, and I want to give back to that community.
My mom is not a person who talks about her feelings a lot, but I think she's quietly very proud of me.


- Patrick on his good looks -
I look in the mirror and wonder what they're all seeing. If anything, I see what
I don't like about my face.

v o i c e o v e r s
- Ask most surgeons why they became surgeons and they usually tell you the same thing.
It was for the high, the rush, the thrill that comes from cutting someone open and saving
their life. For me it was different, maybe it was because I grew up in a house with four sisters.
No, definitely because I grew up in a house with four sisters because it was the quiet that
drew me to surgery. The operating room is a quiet place. Peaceful. It has to be in order
for us to stay alert, anticipate complications. When you stand in the OR, your patient open
on the table, all the worlds noise, all the worry that it brings disappears. A calm settles over
you, time passing without thought. For that moment, you feel completely at peace.

Ask most surgeons why they became surgeons and they usually tell you the same thing.
The high, the rush, the thrill of the cut. For me it was the quiet. Peace isn’t a permanent state.
It exists in moments. Fleeting. Gone before we knew it was there. We can experience
it at any time, in a stranger’s act of kindness, a task that requires complete focus or
simply the comfort of an old routine. Everyday we all experience these moments of peace.
The trick is to know when they’re happening so that we can embrace them, live in them.
And finally let them go. (6x07; Give Peace a Chance)

- We ask a lot of our patients. We put them to sleep. Cut them open. Poke around in
their brain and guts with sharp instruments. We ask for their blind trust. Irony is, trust is
hard for surgeons, because we're trained from day one that we can't trust anyone but ourselves.
The only instincts you can count on are your own. The only skills you can count on are
your own. Until one day, you leave the classroom and step into the O.R. You're surrounded
by others, a team of others. A team that you have to rely on whether you trust them or not.

Which is why I felt it was important to personally come in here and apologize. I am neither
pro nor anti merger. From this point on, everyone has a clean slate. I am not focused on
the past. I'm looking to the future to all the promise this hospital has to offer. I plan to
honor Richard Webber and his legacy, not undo it, which is why I'm both humbled and honored
to be your new Chief of Surgery. (6x13; State of Love and Trust)

- The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there
are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or
to give in. To live. Or die. Live or die. That’s the important choice. And it’s not always in
our hands.

The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are
the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or to give in.
To live. Or die. Live or die. That’s the important choice. And it’s not always in our hands.
(6x24; Death and All His Friends)

- Researchers are currently working on a map of the human brain. It may be the most
complex map ever created. Billions of neurons making trillions of connections. At first glance,
they seem completely random. But there's nothing random about them. All these connections
have to happen in a specific pattern. It is designed for a function. These connections determine
everything about us: what we love, what we hate, what we say, what we do.

We know that every connection matters. Every connection is crucial and when one is broken,
it usually means that the damage has been done. This system of connection compels us to act,
choose and behave... sometimes seemingly against our own will, but it is not random at all.
It is the map of who we are. We will work to understand ourselves... solve the puzzle of how all
the connections work and how all the pieces fit. (10x06; Map of You)