Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I've got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.
I made the decision to go on to college and major in drama and see where it would take me.
My mom said I was not going to be an idle child, so I had things to do every day after school.
I just don't take stuff too seriously.
I don't have to be a star - I don't have to be famous.
We could be much more empathic as a society.
I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.
This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can't fall into the pitfalls of thinking you're secure. If it's not a firing, it's a strike.
Patrick Dempsey will forever be known as 'Grey's Anatomy''s McDreamy.
When someone new takes over a role, the company doesn't change anything from the script, but they do lay it all out there and let people take from it what they take from it.
I'm a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that - like a cartoon.
I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.
It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.
You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.
'Grey's' is one of those shows... that's been able to ride so many waves.
While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.
When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.
I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.
