I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier, it makes the world healthier, it makes the economy healthier.

Finally I want to say this: If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.

I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.