Miranda Bailey quotes from Private Practice

Bailey

[about Violet] Wait, so she's the one you said had the baby and then...

Addison

Yeah.

Bailey

She's back at work? If that had happened to me, I'd be spending my time in a padded room. [looking at Pete] Oh, is that the father?

Addison

Yeah, well, one of them.

Bailey

There's another one?

Addison

It's complicated.

Bailey

[chuckles] This place is better than a telenovela.

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.