George O'Malley quotes from Grey's Anatomy

Izzie

Hey, you're Addison Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd. That's a lot of names, a lot of rich-sounding names. You're rich, right? That's rude. That's a rude question. I'm sorry. It's just I'm rich now too.

George

You're not rich until you deposit the check.

Izzie

Do you ever feel guilty?

Addison

I'm sorry?

Izzie

Being rich. 'Cause I have all this money now and I don't really feel like I did anything to deserve it and I can't really talk to my friends about it because they're all so poor.

George

Standing right here, Izzie.

Addison

Deposit the check, Stevens. Just start there, ok? And, um the guilt will work itself out.

Meredith

Derek had a woman in his trailer last night. She was ugly. Very ugly. Except she was tall and beautiful and he was naked.

George

Oh. Uh, McDreamy was doing the McNasty with a McHottie? That McBastard.

Izzie

[to Meredith] McDreamy's sister is McBitchy.

George

I don't get you people.

Meredith

Us, with the boobs? We make a lot of bad decisions.

Cristina

There's a club. The Dead Dads Club. And you can't be in it until you're in it. You can try and understand. You can sympathize, but until you feel that loss. My dad died when I was 9. George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club.

George

I... I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't.

Cristina

Yeah, that never really changes.

Izzie

Hey! It's the little woman. So what are your plans now? You're not moving in, are you?

Callie

Nice.

George

Wait, Callie.

Callie

Forget it.

George

No. Unbelievable. People, you're supposed to be my friends. My closest friends. Callie is a big - She's the most important part of my life now. If you wanna drive her away, and you're masters at it, you'll do it. But if she's gone, I'm gone. She's my wife. Calliope Iphigenia Torres is my wife. [Izzie starts to laugh at Callie's name] Don't you dare.

Izzie

Okay.

Cristina

[after finding out about Meredith] It's Meredith?

Alex

Yeah.

Cristina

Are you sure? Did you see her? Because it could be...

Alex

[grabs her arm] It's Meredith.

Cristina

Oh. [sees Derek crying in hall] Oh. Oh.

Izzie

She will come through this.

George

You don't know that.

Izzie

She will come through this.

George

People die.

Izzie

I know people die. People die in front of us every day. But I believe Meredith will survive this. I believe - I believe - I believe in the good. I believe that it's been a hell of a year, and I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we will all be okay. I believe a lot of things. I believe that - I believe that Denny is always with me. And I believe that if I eat a tub of butter and no one sees me, then calories don't count. And I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. [to George] And I believe that you are a man who made a terrible mistake marrying Callie. And I believe that because I am your best friend, I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe that even though you made this mistake, you will be okay. I believe we survive, George. I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive.

Cristina

[to new interns] I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.

Izzie

Traumas protocol, phone lists, pagers. The nurses will page you, you answer every page at a run. A run. That's rule number two. [notices the interns are not following her] You're supposed to follow me.

Alex

The first shift starts now and lasts 36 hours. You're grunts, nobodies, the bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, and you work every second night until you drop. And you don't complain.

Meredith

On call rooms. Sleep when you can, where you can. You know, but not with anybody. Not attendings, especially not attendings. Sleeping with attendings, not a good idea. Where was I?

George

Er, rule number three. If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless the patient's actually dying.

Cristina

The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, because not only will you have killed someone, you will have woken me for no good reason. Are we clear? [Lexie raises her hand] Yes?

Lexie

That was four rules. You said five.

Cristina

Rule number five. When I move, you move. [awkward pause as nobody moves] Go! [Cristina's interns scramble off]

George

How is he? Is he... okay?

He's Preston, he's a gentleman. So, he doesn't like to talk about it. And I just really don't know what to say to him.

George

Maybe, um, maybe you can tell him that he dodged a bullet. Marriage is... once you're in, you're in. Burke is smart, he didn't make a mistake. A mistake that, you know, is hard to take back, which even if you want to take back you can't. So, you can tell him that.

"Once you're in, you're in." Make sure you have that engraved on your wedding ring when you get married.

George

Oh, I'm already married.

You're already married? George O'Malley, Burke's friend, Burke's guy. Staying in a marriage out of obligation. That's no way to live, it's no way to love. And I think you know that.

George

Why did she do this to herself?

Bailey

Because people are stupid, and just want to be loved. It's the only reason anybody does anything.

George

It's horrible. The sex. With Izzie... [whispers] horrible. It's like she's trying too hard. I-its... you ever seen a porno? Not that Izzie's a porno; she's an angel, but it's like she's trying to... channel a porn star and she's trying to act all dirty and sexy, which sounds great, right? But in reality I just wanna say, "Izzie, just because you can do that with your legs doesn't mean that you should.

Meredith

Eh... I wanna run.

George

Run, run. Run now!

George

Lexie, I'm your roommate. You're eventually gonna have to talk to me.

Lexie

I reject that supposition.

George

I reject your rejection.

Lexie

And I ignore your rejection of my rejection.

George

What?

Meredith

[tries to calm George down] I don't reject you, George.

George

Thank you!

Izzie

Maybe Cristina's right. Maybe trying to teach the interns is pointless.

George

Please, don't listen to Cristina. She thinks just because you'd rather teach then take out a gall bladder that you're the new me.

Izzie

Haha, O'Malley the sequel.

George

O'Malley 2.0.

Izzie

You read more journals and do more research, and log more hours in the skills lab than any other resident here. You never give up on trying to be a better doctor, and you don't step on other people to do it. I would be lucky to be the new you.