Mark Greene quotes from E.R.

Mark

You wanted to see me?

Doug

Yes I did... how many shifts do you work each week, four?

Mark

Yeah.

Doug

If we don't work the same shifts, we'll get along great.

Mark

Is this about that patient's father?

Doug

This is about your inability to respect my decisions.

Mark

Doctors disagree sometimes Doug, you can't take it personally.

Doug

It's entirely personal Mark, you've been on your moral high horse ever since I came in with Nadine Wilkes.

Mark

Well, what do you expect when you drag your dirty laundry through the door?

Doug

But it's not personal... right? Who are you kidding?

Mark

[chasing after Susan's train, shouting] Susan! Susan! Susan!

Susan

Mark!... My God, are you okay? You came to say goodbye?

Mark

No... stay. I want you to stay.

Susan

But, Mark, I...

Mark

I love you. And I'm stupid for not saying it before.

Susan

No, it's OK. I knew. In a way I knew.

Mark

We belong together. Tell me you don't feel the same.

Susan

I'm sorry.

Mark

We're right together.

Susan

Mark, you are my best friend in the whole world, I don't know how I'm gonna make it without you.

Mark

Don't go!

Susan

I have to. I don't belong here anymore, I have a new life, it's going in a different direction.

Mark

Susan... I don't want to lose you!

Susan

I'll never forget you. [As the train begins to pull away] I do love you!

Mark

What?

Susan

I love you... bye!

Mark

Shelly, if you do have meningitis and we don't treat you, you could die.

Die, cry, let me fry.

Mark

Do you know where you are?

In the hospital, talking to Dr. Greene with a head like a bean.

Mark

Do you know what day it is?

Thursday, January 16th. Bing! Correct! Alex Trebek. Next: "Stupid Questions" for 200.

Mark

So, should I be looking over my shoulder for your father with a shotgun?

Chuny

No, my brother Julio. He packs a .45.

Mark

How many people know about me and Chuny Marquez?

Doug

Including the cleaning crew?

Doug

How did you end up going out with two women on the same night?

Mark

Scheduling mix-up. Any suggestions?

Doug

Dinner with one, drinks with the other.

Mark

Yeah... I think they're both expecting the works.

Doug

Who do you like more?

Mark

Well, Heather's a lot of fun.

Doug

Fun's good.

Mark

Polly, she's... she's very spiritual.

Doug

Spiritual like what? Like, like crystals or something?

Mark

Heather's got Bulls tickets.

Doug

Bulls! Say no more.

Mark

Yeah, you're right. I'll call Polly. I'll make up an excuse and go out with her tomorrow night.

Doug

You're playing with fire here.

Mark

I can juggle.

Doug

You're gonna get burnt. Women can smell deceit.

Mark

You ought to know.

Doug

Those days are long gone, my friend.

Mark

So, what do you do now?

Doug

Give advice.

Chuny

I thought you had a date.

Mark

Canceled.

Chuny

They busted you?

Mark

They busted me.

Chuny

Men are so stupid. How many women were you dating when you were with me?

Mark

Just you.

Chuny

Really?

Mark

Yeah, you know, except for that night when my neighbor, the ballerina, broke up with her boyfriend. You know, I had to comfort her.

Chuny

Yeah, so that was like a public service.

Mark

Yeah. Other than that, I was totally faithful.

Chuny

Oh, I feel blessed.

Mark

Remember when we were gonna change the world?

Doug

No, I was always in it for the money.

Mark

When Kenny Law came in, do you think I made racist assumptions?

Haleh

Black folk see the world one way, white folk see it another.

Mark

All white people?

Haleh

When something happens, you say it's got nothing to do with race, but for us, it's always got to do with race.

Mark

Malik, can you join me?

Malik

What for?

Mark

Kenny Law died. I have to tell his family.

Malik

If you're scared, you should call Security. I'm a nurse.

You don't get bills from people who kill your child. You don't pay people who lose his body between their morgue and a coroner so that you have to postpone a funeral for two days.

Mark

I'm sorry. I had no idea that happened.

Nobody has any idea, but you tell them that she doesn't get another piece of mail from this hospital unless it's an apology.

Mark

I'm very sorry for your loss.

I'm not threatening to sue. I'm sure you have a department for that too, but if my mother gets another bill from this hospital, maybe I'm gonna kick some ass. Maybe I'll start with yours.

Mark

You carry a gun?

Maggie

Under the front seat of my car. I was at the drive-thru once, waiting for some fries, and this punk walks up, and sticks a knife in my face. He wants my wallet. So, I reach under the seat, grab the .357, stick it up his nose, and whoa, could that kid run.

Mark

I'm an idiot, Kerry. I'm a complete idiot.

Kerry

Was that the detective you were waiting for?

Mark

It wasn't an angry patient. It wasn't a family member of an angry patient. It wasn't Chris Law. It wasn't Mr. Gunther. It wasn't that crazy guy who was yelling about Krishna.

Kerry

They checked everybody out?

Mark

I thought I was remembering it like a puzzle that would come together, but the Chicago Police Department was nice enough to inform me that I am simply the victim of random violence.

Kerry

Well, you knew that, Mark, patient or no patient.

Mark

What I knew is that everything I do, I do because I am not the victim. I treat the victim, I cure the victim, I watch them roll the victim out like a piece of meat, but the truth is, I'm the piece of meat.

Kerry

We can't think about that. We're the ones who see what goes on out there. We know that every day some child won't make it home from school, some father won't make it home from work, but if we allowed ourselves to think that could be us, we couldn't walk out our front door.

Mark

The problem is that is us.

Kerry

No, the problem is, it makes us like everyone else.

Carter

Time of death is 9:56.

Mark

Call an attending when there's a full arrest. You get help. You don't try and play the hero.

Carter

I've run them before.

Mark

That was up in surgery. You work here now.

Mark

You're in early.

Carter

Yeah, I wanted to be in before my med student.

Mark

Ah, your very own scut puppy.

Carter

Somebody to pick up my labs. Do a patient history. The occasional obligatory rectal exam...

Mark

Someone to abuse.

Carter

No, no, no, this is about teaching. This is completely about teaching.

Mark

The way Benton taught you?

Carter

Or even better.