Pompeo Quotes & Sayings

I just don't want to be self-obsessed. — Ellen Pompeo

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose. — Ellen Pompeo

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be. — Ellen Pompeo

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them. — Ellen Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work. — Mike Pompeo

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls. — Ellen Pompeo

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America. — Mike Pompeo

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. — Ellen Pompeo

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids. — Mike Pompeo

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them. — Mike Pompeo

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. — Ellen Pompeo

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government. — Mike Pompeo

It is challenging. I have my days where I feel really guilty that I've been here every day if I have to work a lot. But I am so lucky to live in a country where a girl like me can make this kind of living, achieve her dreams and reach her goals. And I don't think anywhere else in the world can girls have the freedom that we do here to have these amazing careers and be mothers. — Ellen Pompeo

Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair. — Ellen Pompeo

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had. — Ellen Pompeo

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am ... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test. — Mike Pompeo

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes. — Ellen Pompeo

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. — Ellen Pompeo

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up. — Ellen Pompeo

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete. — Mike Pompeo

Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports. — Mike Pompeo

At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back. — Mike Pompeo

The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1. — Ellen Pompeo

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else. — Ellen Pompeo

Medicine is so fascinating. — Ellen Pompeo

Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period. — Mike Pompeo

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food. — Ellen Pompeo

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps. — Ellen Pompeo

I have run two small businesses in Kansas, and I have seen how government can crush entrepreneurism. That's why I ran for Congress. It just so happens that there are a lot of people in south central Kansas who agree with me on that. — Mike Pompeo

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys. — Ellen Pompeo

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand. — Mike Pompeo

Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win ... — Ellen Pompeo

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. — Mike Pompeo

I am who I am, a Southie. — Ellen Pompeo

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know? — Ellen Pompeo

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world. — Ellen Pompeo

What you find is, you have to deliver a product that has value to the customer. When you do, and I think the wind community is getting much closer to that, customers will want it. — Mike Pompeo

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. — Ellen Pompeo

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. — Ellen Pompeo

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever. — Ellen Pompeo

Being a mother is magical. — Ellen Pompeo

The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute. — Ellen Pompeo

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it. — Ellen Pompeo

Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so! — Ellen Pompeo

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something. — Ellen Pompeo

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government. — Mike Pompeo

You know, Boston people are full of sauce. — Ellen Pompeo

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work. — Ellen Pompeo

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention. — Ellen Pompeo

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. — Ellen Pompeo

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more. — Mike Pompeo

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do. — Ellen Pompeo

I don't like everybody who I see on TV. — Ellen Pompeo

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem. — Mike Pompeo

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal. — Mike Pompeo

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives. — Ellen Pompeo

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it. — Ellen Pompeo

I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men. — Ellen Pompeo

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it. — Ellen Pompeo

We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse. — Mike Pompeo

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal. — Ellen Pompeo

I'm the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel. — Ellen Pompeo

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy. — Ellen Pompeo

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation. — Mike Pompeo