I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.
Ellen PompeoFor me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not ยญhaving to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.
Ellen PompeoWhere 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 PompeoMy 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 PompeoI 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