Sam Bennett quotes from Private Practice

Cooper

[to Addison and Sam] What is wrong with you two? What?

Addison

We made a pact.

Sam

Addison and I are ignoring our problems.

Addison

We are not going to talk or think about our problems anymore. Nothing even close to thinking or talking about our problems.

Sam

We're gonna be strong.

Addison

Strong.

Sam

In denial, but strong.

Addison

Strong.

Cooper

Yeah, well, that's, um, you know, stupid.

Sam

You are playing God!

Bailey

I'm a surgeon, it's how we pass the time.

Sam

Doctor Bailey, we both want to save your patient, but you can't expect me to back you on this. I'm putting my foot down. Okay, my, my, my foot is down.

Bailey

Your foot is down? Your foot is down. Oh no, you better pick that foot up and use it to walk away from me.

Bailey

You know what, no, you're right. When I first got here, I was guilty about what happened, but I was acting as a doctor. A surgeon, 'cause that's my job, to cut through the bull and save the patient.

Sam

Please, don't pull the surgeon card. We're all doctors around here.

Bailey

It's personality thing. Okay, yeah, I've seen you long enough to see that you're good, but you hang back. You watch, you decide. I act. I don't stand outside a room watching my life pass me by, and I won't stand by and watch this patient die.

Sam

I know facing her will be hard.

Violet

Being on the same planet with her is hard.

Sam

Alright, well, we could all chip in and get her one of those guest trips to the space station. One-way. We could probably get a discount if it's one-way, right?

Sam

[about their daughter] She's 15 years old, she's becoming her own person. We got to give her room.

Naomi

Room to what? Roll around on the couch with some boy named Dink.

Sam

Well maybe we should meet him, you know? See what kind of a guy he is.

Naomi

He's the kind of guy who had his hands all over your daughter's...

Sam

Hey, hey, hey.

Naomi

Do you remember what you were like when you were his age? [pause] Oh, yeah, well, you're not a good example. But this Dink person, he looks like a scruffy little hormone.

Sam

Okay, I will talk to her about him.

Naomi

Talking's good, but yelling's fine too.

Sam

Do you remember the day Maya lost her first tooth? It fell out in the yard, we spent about four hours looking for that thing because without proof, the Tooth Fairy wouldn't pay up. And then there's today. You know, we're going to get through this, once this whole thing is over and done, we're going to get back there. Say something! Anything!

Naomi

What do you want me to say? You want me to say I did the wrong thing? Okay, I did the wrong thing. Do I believe I'm going to Hell for forcing our daughter to have an abortion? Absolutely. Do I regret doing what I had to do? No. I would do anything, I would give my life to protect her, and if that means I'm going to Hell then fine, I'm going to Hell.

Sam

Naomi...

Naomi

I failed, Sam. I failed. First in our marriage, and now being a mother.

Sam

No! This is on both of us.

Naomi

I thought I taught her right from wrong. She didn't listen, it's like nothing I did made any difference. I failed.

Sam

Addison, it's not my fault.

Addison

You could have kept your mouth shut.

Sam

She saw us. She knew.

Addison

There was nothing to see. Nothing happened.

Sam

Nothing happened, really? So, there's nothing for Naomi to be mad about?

Addison

We never...

Sam

She saw what she saw because it was there. Now, maybe you're afraid to act on it, but it was there.

Addison

So, what are you saying? That it would be better if we had, if you and I had slept together, you're saying it would be okay that Naomi's mad?

Sam

At least we could be together, instead of whatever this is.

Addison

Okay, I don't know what she is to you, but she is important to me. She's my... she's everything.

Sam

So then, what am I?

Addison

You have a girlfriend. And I have Pete, so we are nothing.

Addison

Nay, Sam and I never meant to have feelings for each other, it just happened. But it never went anywhere because of you, please don't be mad at me.

Naomi

Mad?!

Addison

Nay!

Naomi

[to Sam] Did you ever love me?

Sam

Don't be ridiculous.

Naomi

Was I second choice? When did all this start? When we were in med school?

Addison

No!

Naomi

[to Addison] What, when you were maid of honor at my wedding?

Addison

It's not like that, Naomi.

Naomi

It is like that. I... I can't stop wondering. Everything is tainted with this. He... he is the father of my child, Addison, there's a bond there. And maybe I should expect you to understand that, but you don't get friendship.

Addison

That's why we backed off, Naomi. Friendship.

Naomi

I'm second guessing everything that's ever happened between us. Plus, every good memory of our marriage, of our friendship. No, no I am not mad, you two have broken my heart.

I almost killed her, Sam. And those babies.

Sam

They're in Addison's hands.

What am I doing?

Sam

You're doing surgery on a woman's brain, a... a surgery you said only you could do. A surgery you fought for. Stop standing there and start acting like a surgeon!

You sound like Addison.

Sam

No, I sound like you before you started losing confidence in yourself. Amelia, can you do this? Can you wake this woman up and bring her back to her family? Or were you just spouting a bunch of mess because you like to cut?