Mark Greene quotes from E.R.

Mark

Why is the thermostat in the lounge set at 56?

Frank

Get used to it. We are heading into another ice age. That's what killed the dinosaurs.

Mark

Ice Age didn't kill the dinosaurs, it was cholesterol.

Mark

[after Ella is brought into the ER after overdosing on ecstasy] You bring drugs into our house and leave them out for a baby?

It wasn't mine.

Mark

Stop lying!

I'm not. They were just for a party and I wasn't sure I was going to take them.

Mark

Well, your sister did.

But she's going to be okay, though, right? It was just one pill.

Mark

Are you really that stupid? Ella is 9 months old!

Mark

She almost died.

Dad, don't...

Mark

Don't what? Don't call you a liar? Because that's what you are, Rachel. You promised me you weren't doing drugs. She could have long-term brain damage, learning disabilities, low I.Q., memory impairment. She could still die!

[starts crying] I know, Dad. Please, please, Dad, I... I'm sorry. I'm... Dad, I'm... Daddy, I'm sorry. [cries into Mark's arms; Mark comforts her]

Mark

I am not choosing between my two daughters.

Elizabeth

You don't have to. I'm choosing for you.

Mark

And what am I telling her by letting you ship her away?

Elizabeth

That she needs to grow up. That she needs to take responsibility. That what she does has very real consequences for people besides herself!

Mark

She realizes that. Do you think she would actually hurt Ella again?

Elizabeth

Either she's out of the house by the time I take that baby home or I'm not taking that baby home!

Mark

Hold on, calm down. Take a breath before you start issuing ultima...

Elizabeth

She's my child, Mark!

Mark

I know that! She's mine, too!

Elizabeth

Then start acting like it!

Pratt

Do I seem like a punk to you?

Mark

No.

Pratt

Then how about you stop trying to treat me like one.

Mark

Mrs. Raskin. It's been a long time.

The service isn't what it used to be.

Mark

What seems to be the matter?

I have this hangnail and it's very painful.

Mark

I have a brain tumor and it's inoperable.

What?

Mark

I win.

Mark

I'd get here at 6 a.m., sweep up, mop the locker rooms, skim the pool. $1.25 an hour.

That's slave wages.

Mark

It was enough to keep me in new records and good weed.

Mark

What? You know, records, LPs, vinyls. Those funny, big black things that your hip-hop heroes are always ripping off for their songs.

Mark

[Reading his bucket list to Elizabeth] Start a rock band and end up on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Elizabeth

Do you even play an instrument?

Mark

No, but I always wanted to trash a hotel room.

Mark

I was trying to figure out what I should have already told you, but I never have. Something important, something every father should impart to his daughter. I finally got it: generosity. Be generous, with your time, with your love, with your life.

Okay.

Mark

I'm sorry, Rachel. I'm so tired.

It's okay.

Mark

Don't cry for me.

I won't.

Mark

Be generous...always.

I will. Daddy. I remember the lullaby. I remember you used to sing it to me every night. I remember.