Quotes
Quotes from the First Episode of Grey's Anatomy
MEREDITH: The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play it, or they don’t. My mother was one of the greats. Me, on the other hand, I’m kinda screwed. I can’t think of any one reason on why I want to be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when... it’s more than just a game. And you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here’s the thing. I love the playing field.
DR. BAILEY: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number 1. Don’t bother sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not gonna change. Trauma protocol, phone lists, pagers. Nurses will page you. You answer every page at a run. A run! That’s rule number 2. Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours. You're interns, grunts, nobodies, bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop and don’t complain. On call rooms. Attendings hog them. Sleep when you can, where you can. Which brings me to rule number 3. If I’m sleeping, don’t wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number 4. The dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you would have woke me for no good reason. We clear? Yes?
MEREDITH: You said five rules. That was only... four.
DR. BAILEY: Rule number five. When I move, you move. Get out of my way!
MEREDITH: Stop looking at me like that!
DEREK: Like what?
MEREDITH: Like you’ve seen me naked.
GEORGE: Maybe I should’ve gone into geriatrics. No one minds when you kill an old person.
CRISTINA: Surgery is hot. It’s the marines. It’s macho. It’s hostile. It’s hardcore. Geriatrics is for freaks who live with their mothers and never have sex.
MEREDTIH: What are you doing?
CRISTINA: I’m suturing a banana with the vain hope that it wakes up my brain.
[George laughs]
CRISTINA: What are you smiling at 007? I’m sorry, I get mean when I’m tired.
MEREDITH: The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play it, or they don’t. My mother was one of the greats. Me, on the other hand, I’m kinda screwed. I can’t think of any one reason on why I want to be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when... it’s more than just a game. And you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here’s the thing. I love the playing field.
DR. BAILEY: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number 1. Don’t bother sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not gonna change. Trauma protocol, phone lists, pagers. Nurses will page you. You answer every page at a run. A run! That’s rule number 2. Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours. You're interns, grunts, nobodies, bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop and don’t complain. On call rooms. Attendings hog them. Sleep when you can, where you can. Which brings me to rule number 3. If I’m sleeping, don’t wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number 4. The dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you would have woke me for no good reason. We clear? Yes?
MEREDITH: You said five rules. That was only... four.
DR. BAILEY: Rule number five. When I move, you move. Get out of my way!
MEREDITH: Stop looking at me like that!
DEREK: Like what?
MEREDITH: Like you’ve seen me naked.
GEORGE: Maybe I should’ve gone into geriatrics. No one minds when you kill an old person.
CRISTINA: Surgery is hot. It’s the marines. It’s macho. It’s hostile. It’s hardcore. Geriatrics is for freaks who live with their mothers and never have sex.
MEREDTIH: What are you doing?
CRISTINA: I’m suturing a banana with the vain hope that it wakes up my brain.
[George laughs]
CRISTINA: What are you smiling at 007? I’m sorry, I get mean when I’m tired.