101. A Hard Day's Night - Quotes

Meredith: The game. They say a person either has what it takes to play or they don't. My mother was one of the greats. Me on the other hand... I'm kinda screwed...
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Meredith: You know what? We don't have to do the thing.
Derek: Oh, we can do anything you want.
Meredith: No, the thing: exchange the details, pretend we care. Look, I'm gonna go upstairs and take a shower, ok? And when I get back donw here, you won't be here, so... uhm... goodbye ... uh...
Derek: Derek.
Meredith: Derek. Right. Meredith.
Derek: Meredith. Nice meeting you.
Meredith: Bye, Derek.
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Dr. Webber: Each of you comes today hopeful, wanting in on the game. A month ago you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you. Say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty, five of you will crack under the pressure, two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play, that's up to you.
Meredith: Like I said, I'm screwed.
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Meredith: Only six women out of twenty.
Cristina: Yeah. I hear one of them's a model. Seriously, that's gonna help with the respect thing?
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Cristina: That's the Nazi?
George: I thought the Nazi would be a guy.
Meredith: I thought the Nazi would be a Nazi.
Izzie: Maybe it's professional jealousy. Maybe she's brilliant and they call her a Nazi because they're jealous. Maybe she's nice.
Cristina: Let me guess. You're the model.
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Izzie: Hi. I'm Isobel Stevens but everyone calls me Izzie.
Dr. Bailey: I have five rules. Memorise them. Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up, I already hate you, that's not gonna change. Trauma protocol, phone list, pagers, nurses will page you. You will answer every page at a run. A run! That's rule number two. 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, wich brings me to rule number three: If I'm sleeping, don't wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number four: The dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you 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.
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Dr. Bailey: Izzie, 10 milligrams Diazepam IM. No, no. The white lead is on the right. Righty, whitey, smoke over fire.
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Dr. Burke: Dr. Bailey, let's shotgun her.
Dr. Bailey: That means every test in the book: CT, CBC, chem-7, tox screen. Cristina, you're on labs. George, patient work-ups. Meredith, get Katie for a CT. She's your responsability now.
Izzie: Wait. What about me?
Dr. Bailey: Honey, you get to do rectal exams.
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George: So, your bypass surgery tomorrow with Dr. Burke. I hear he's good. And after that you can have all the bacon flavored soy product you can eat.
Mr. Savitch: Somebody kill me now.
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George: The shift is a marathon, not a sprint. Eat.
Izzie: I can't.
George: You should eat something.
Izzie: You try eating after performing 17 rectal exams. The Nazi hates me.
George: The Nazi's a resident. I have attendings hating me.
Cristina: You know Meredith is inbred?
George: Like it's uncommon here to have doctors as parents.
Cristina: No. Royally inbred. Her mother's Ellis Grey.
Izzie: Shut up! The Ellis Grey?
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Meredith: Katie Bryce is a pain in the ass. If I hadn't taken the Hippocratic Oath, I would Kevorkian her with my bare hands.
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Meredith: Dr. Shepherd.
Derek: Dr. Shepherd? This morning, it was Derek. Now it's Dr. Shepherd.
Meredith: Dr. Shepherd. We should pretend it never happened.
Derek: What never happened? You sleeping with me the last night, or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are fond memories I'd like to hold onto.
Meredith: No. There will be no memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore, and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that, right?
Derek: You took advantage of me and now you wanna forget about it.
Meredith: I did not...
Derek: I was drunk, vulnerable and good-looking. You took advantage.
Meredith: Ok, I was the one who was drunk, and you are not that good-looking.
Derek: Maybe not today. Last night, I was very good-looking. I had my red shirt on. You took advantage.
Meredith: I did not...
Derek: Want to take advantage again? Friday night?
Meredith: No. You're an attending and I'm your intern. Stop looking at me like that!
Derek: Like what?
Meredith: Like you've seen me naked!
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George: Open, identify, ligate, remove, irrigate, close.
Intern 1: He'll faint. He's a fainter.
Intern 2: Nah, code brown, right in his pants.
Intern 1: He's gonna swet himself unsterile.
Intern 1: Ten bucks, he messes up the McBurney.
Cristina: 15 says he cries.
Intern 2: I'll put 20 on a total meltdown.
Meredith: 50 says he pulls the whole thing off. That's one of us down there, the first one of us. Where's your loyalty?
Cristina: 75 says he can't even ID the appendix.
Izzie: I'll take that action.
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Alex: He's 007.
Intern 1: 007, yep.
Intern 2: A total 007.
Izzie: What's "007" mean?
Meredith: License to kill.
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George: 007. They're calling me 007, aren't they?
Meredith, Izzie: No one's calling you 007.
George: I was on the elevator and Murphy whispered 007.
Cristina: Okay, how many times are we going to go through this, George? Five, ten? Give me a number or else I'm going to hit you.
George: Murphy whispered 007 and everyone laughed.
Izzie: He wasn't talking about you.
George: Are you sure?
Meredith: Would we lie to you?
George: Yes.
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George: Maybe I should have gone into geriatrics. No one minds when you kill an old person.
Cristina: Surgery's 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.
George: I've got to get my own place.
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Meredith: Go to sleep and stop wasting my time.
Katie Bryce: But I can't sleep, my head's all full.
Meredith: That's called thinking. Go with it.
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Izzie: Dr. Bailey, I don't mean to bother you.
Dr. Bailey: Then don't.
Izzie: It's Mr. Jones.
Dr. Bailey: Is he dying?
Izzie: No.
Dr. Bailey: Then stop talking to me.
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Dr. Bailey [to Izzie]: Next time you wake me, he'd better be so close to dead there's a tag on his toe.
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Meredith: You can't make a face, comment, or react in any way. We had sex.
Cristina [about Katie]:What about an aneurysm?
Meredith: No blood on the CT and no headaches.
Cristina: There's no drug use, no pregnancy, no trauma. Was he good? He looks like he’d be good. Was he any good?
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Meredith [about Katie]: She's never gonna get the chance to turn into a person. The sum total of her existence will be almost winning Miss Teen whatever. You know what her pageant talent is?
Cristina: They have talent?
Meredith: Rhythmic gymnastics.
Cristina: Oh, come on.
Meredith: What is rhythmic gymnastics? I can't even say it. I don't know what it is.
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Cristina: Katie competes in beauty pageants.
Derek: I know that, but we have to save her life anyway.
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Derek: You know what the chance is a minor fall could burst an aneurysm? One in a million, literally. Let's go.
Cristina: Where?
Derek: To find out if Katie's one in a million.
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George: But I told his wife... I told Gloria that he would be fine. I promised her that...
Dr. Burke: You what?
George: They have four little girls.
Dr. Burke: No, no. You don't promise anything. This is my case. Did you hear me promise? The only one that can keep a promise that big is God, and I haven't seen him holding a scalpel lately.
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Dr. Burke [to George]: You're important enough to make promises to Mrs. Savitch? You get to be the one to tell her she's a widow.
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Meredith: I'll tell him I changed my mind. You can have...
Cristina: You know, don't do me any favours. I'm fine.
Meredith: Cristina...
Cristina: No, you did a cutthroat thing, deal with it. Don't come to me for absolution. Want to be a shark, be a shark.
Meredith: I'm not...
Cristina: Oh, yes you are. Only it makes you feel all bad in your warm, gooey places. No, screw you. I don't get picked for my surgeries cos I slept with my boss, and I didn't get into med school cos I have a famous mother. You know, some of us have to earn what we get.
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Derek: I promised I'd make her look cool. Apparently being a bald beauty queen is the worst thing that happened in the history of the world.
Meredith: Did you choose me for the surgery because I slept with you?
Derek: Yes. I'm kidding.
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Dr. Webber [to Meredith]: I'd know you anywhere. You're the spitting image of your mother. Welcome to the game.
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Derek: All right everybody. It's a beautiful night to save lives. Let's have some fun.
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Meredith: I can't think of any one reason why I should 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.
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Cristina: We don't have to do that thing where, you know, I say something, and then you say something, and then somebody cries, and there's like a moment.
Meredith: Yuck.
Cristina: Good. You should get some sleep, you look like crap.
Meredith: I look better than you.
Cristina: That’s not possible.
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Meredith [to Derek]: That was amazing. You practice on cadavers, you observe, and you think you know what you're gonna feel like standing over that table, but...that was such a high. I don't know why anybody does drugs.
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Meredith: So... I made it through my first shift. We all did. The other interns are all good people, you'd like them. I think. I don't know... Maybe. I like them. Oh, and I changed my mind. I'm not gonna sell the house. I'm gonna keep it. I'll have to get a couple of roommates, but it's home, you know?
Dr. Ellis Grey: Are you the doctor?
Meredith: No, I'm not your doctor. But I am a doctor.
Dr. Ellis Grey: What's your name?
Meredith: It's me, mom. Meredith.