Robert Chase quotes from House

Dr. Chase

[about his father] I don't hate him. I loved him until I figured out it hurts a lot less to just not care. You don't expect him to turn up to your football match? No disappointments. You don't expect a call on your birthday, don't expect to see him for months? No disappointments. You want us to go make up? Sink a few beers together, nice family hug? I've given him enough hugs. He's given me enough disappointments.

Dr. Chase

Cameron and Foreman are too ethical and I'm too scared of getting sued.

Chase

Only psychopaths can kill other people without having some sort of breakdown.

Chase

You lit a fuse, you need to watch the bomb go off.

Chase

You know how I got interested in medicine? When my mother drank, she couldn't handle me, so she locked me in my father's study. Only so many hours you can cry and bang on the door before you give up, find something to read. We all have family dysfunction. That's why we're successful. To fill that hole.

Chase

[to Adams] You claim you're not screwed up. You may even believe it. But House doesn't and I don't, so you can wait till he camps out on your parents' lawn or you can admit you don't live on some higher plane and thank me later.

Dr. Chase

It doesn't necessarily have to be that bad. If we exclude the night terrors it could be something systemic: his liver, kidneys, something outside the brain.

Dr. House

Yes, feel free to exclude any symptom if it makes your job easier.

Dr. Cameron

I'm uncomfortable about sex.

Dr. Chase

Well, we don't have to talk about this...

Dr. Cameron

Sex could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun, the human race would have died out eons ago. [pause to breathe deep and stare at each other] Men are lucky they can only have one orgasm. Do you know that women can have an hour-long orgasm?

Dr. Cameron

[grabs an apple and heads back to her seat] Hey, Foreman.

Dr. House

How is the nun?

Dr. Chase

Which one?

Dr. House

The cute one, I think she likes me. The sick one, obviously.

Dr. Foreman

[Referring to Dr. House] He's really talking to a patient.

Dr. Chase

I don't know who I am any more.

Dr. Chase

[Referring to Dr. House] He likes crazy people. He likes the way they think.

Dr. Foreman

They think... badly. That's the definition of... crazy.

Dr. Chase

They're not boring. He likes that.

Dr. House

I assume "minimal at best" is your stiff upper lip British way of saying "no chance in hell."

Dr. Chase

I'm Australian.

Dr. House

You put the Queen on your money; you're British.

Dr. Chase

You're joking.

Dr. House

Well, hard not to - nothing funnier than cancer.

Dr. Chase

How would you feel if I interfered in your personal life?

Dr. House

I'd hate it. That's why I cleverly have no personal life.

Dr. Chase

You can trust me.

Dr. House

Problem is, if I can't trust you, I can't trust your statement that I can trust you. But thanks anyway, you've been a big help.