The Best Amy Madigan Quotes

Annie: Hey, what if the Voice calls while you're gone?
Ray: Take a message.

Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you mean? I don't know what you mean when you say she didn't want to die.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: When you were sitting on the floor with your mother, what did she say to you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: She told me to be extraordinary. She said that she had failed, but that I should be extraordinary, that I shouldn't depend on anyone. "Be an extraordinary woman, Meredith," is what she said.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: And so you became a surgeon, just like her.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes.
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: Which means you have all the tools to figure this out for yourself.
Dr. Meredith Grey: But I just...
Dr. Katharine Wyatt: You need to work this through, Meredith. I promise you, when you do, you're gonna be glad.

Dr. Lexie Grey: I forgive you.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie.
Dr. Lexie Grey: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.
Dr. Meredith Grey: Lexie...
Dr. Lexie Grey: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you, and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed, I had this fantasy about my big sister, and you have failed on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you.
[storms out of bathroom]
Dr. Wyatt: [comes out of bathroom stall] Two o'clock work for you?
Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah... ok.

Annie: If you build what, who will come?
Ray: He didn't say.

Cedric: This guy's not even a lawyer. Can he even make a deal?
Connie: Yes, he can, Mr. Stuber. And if you have any doubts, I'm here for your peace of mind.
Cedric: [sarcastic] Oh, that's sweet of you.
[sitting down]
Cedric: So what do you got?
Michael: Man one. Twenty years.
Cedric: [derisive laugh] Screw that.
Emily: Come on, Mike. You can do better than that. If he is going to blow trial, the minimum is fifteen years.
Connie: Everyone in this room knows he won't get less than twenty-five to life after a conviction for a hate crime.
Cedric: You know what? I'm sick of this hate crime crap. It's not like he was a black guy or a spic.
Michael: Our offer just went up to twenty-five.
Emily: Mike.
Michael: Go to trial if you don't like it.
Emily: How about our motion for dismissal? How about your law license?
Michael: You can have my license! It'll free me up to testify about the hate speech your client just spewed in here. And after he's convicted of murder in state court, I'll walk across to the U.S. Attorney's office and have your client prosecuted for violating the Matthew Shepard Act. Hate murder against gays is a federal offense now. Are you ready to do back to back life sentences, Mr. Stuber? You will die in jail.

Dr. Meredith Grey: [to her shrink in the elevator] what was the point? All those hours and all that money. what's the point? The world is a horrible place. Young people die of diseases. It makes absolutely no sense to try to be happy in a world that's such a horrible place.
Dr. Wyatt: [to Meredith] Yes.
Dr. Meredith Grey: What?
Dr. Wyatt: Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness in the face of all of that... that's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you're not gonna die from those feelings, that's goal.
Dr. Wyatt: [she stops the elevator] And you're not done. You've made progress because you're feeling and you're telling me about it. Six months ago, it would've been just you and a bottle of tequila. My door is always open.

Annie: They're talking about banning books again! Really subversive books, like "The Wizard of Oz"... "The Diary of Anne Frank"...

Annie: [trying to understand the situation] I mean, Shoeless Joe...
Ray: He's dead. Died in '51; he's dead.
Annie: He's the one they suspended, right?
Ray: Right.
Annie: He's still dead?
Ray: Far as I know.

Ray: [about the reclusive Terence Mann] OK, the last interview he ever gave was in 1973. Guess what it's about.
Annie: Some kind of team sport.

Annie: Terence Mann was a voice of reason during a time of great madness. Where others were chanting, "Burn, baby, burn", he was talking about love and peace and prosperity. He coined the phrase, "Make love, not war". I cherished every one of his books, and I dearly wish he had written some more. And if you experienced even a little bit of the sixties, you would feel the same way, too.
Beulah: [indignantly] I *experienced* the sixties.
Annie: No, I think you had two fifties and moved right into the seventies.

Ray: I think I know what "If you build it, he will come" means.
Annie: Ooh... why do I not think this is such a good thing?
Ray: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play ball again.
Annie: [staring in disbelief] You're kidding.
Ray: Huh-uh.
Annie: Wow.
Ray: Yeah.
Annie: Ha. You're kidding.

Ray: The Voice is back.
Annie: Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field now?

[Ray explains Terence Mann's "pain" to Annie]
Ray: The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.
[Annie looks at Ray's notes]
Annie: Oh, my God!
Ray: What?
Annie: As a small boy, he had a bat named Rosebud.

Staten: I have seven guns at home
Pop,8839: Why do you have seven?
Staten: Because it's my constitutional rights

[Shoeless Joe Jackson walks into the cornfield and disappears. Ray turns to his wife]
Ray: We're keeping this field.
Annie: You bet your ass we are!

- That goes to the lab.
Marilyn: You're a good boy.
- It's okay. It's okay, sweetie.
- There's your grandson back.
- You are so brave.
- Yeah. Ha, ha.