Grey's Anatomy
Thursdays 9:00 PM on ABCFavorite Preston Burke Quotes
MIRANDA: "Dr. Burke. Uh, could we have a moment alone? I just, I didn't realize you were one of them: one of the doctors around with doubts about me or my abilities."
PRESTON: "Miranda, I'm not."
MIRANDA: "My name was erased from the board. I have to assume that was you."
PRESTON: "Dr. Bailey-"
MIRANDA: "I just... I just... I need to know why. I need to know why you didn't want me in on your surgery."
PRESTON: "I just didn't think I could use you."
PRESTON: "I believe there's a mind/body/spirit connection. If Justin really doesn't want this heart, his body will reject it."
CRISTINA: "So, let me get this straight. You not only celebrate Christmas, but you actually believe in Santa Claus?"
PRESTON: [pauses] "Go clean up."
CRISTINA: "But we're not done here."
PRESTON: "You are."
RICHARD: "That's Ellis Grey's little girl!"
PRESTON: "We're all on the same side here, Chief."
PRESTON: "I know it was probably you who convinced Cristina. She's very strong, but she listens to you. If you told her to move in... Anyway. Thank you."
MEREDITH: "No problem."
PRESTON: "So what's the story with you and Grey?"
DEREK: [pauses] "I got drunk and she took advantage of me. Or she got drunk and I took advantage of her. Well, either way, we were drunk, definitely, and somebody took advantage. I look at it as my initiation into Seattle. What about you?"
PRESTON: "I don't have a story, I just wanted to hear yours."
PRESTON: "I haven't had a tremor in a week."
CRISTINA: "George knows. And this is not any surgery. You're operating on his father."
PRESTON: "I am aware of that and I am fine."
CRISTINA: "Well, he's going to do something. I know him. He's not gonna just stand by and say nothing."
PRESTON: "There's nothing to say. I had a tremor and now I don't."
PRESTON: "You really don't look so good."
DEREK: "Meredith and I, we may not make it. I think I want it more than she does. But today's your day, it's all about you today."
PRESTON: "You really are a good best man."
DEREK: "I try."
MARK: "The bachelor party was short handed. Which explains why I'm here."
ADDISON: "I'm the only woman here. Am I supposed to the be the entertainment? Because I'm not stripping."
DEREK: "That's all right, we've all seen it before."
MARK: "True."
PRESTON: "I haven't."
PRESTON: "I think you should know that Richard promised Chief to both of us... but you already knew that."
DEREK: "Yeah, well, keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
PRESTON: "No. You're not the enemy, you're just the competition."
PRESTON: "How are you and uh, Dr. Torres doing these days?"
GEORGE: "Good. She doesn't know it yet, but we are. We... Excellent really. For a while, uh, she wanted, uh, a certain level of commitment, and I just didn't feel that way. I was ri- Now I am though."
PRESTON: "So you're stepping up."
GEORGE: "I am stepping up. You knew right? It was the right time. With you and Christina?"
PRESTON: "Right."
Cristina: We need a strategy. We have to figure out our story and come up with a plan.
PRESTON: "Cristina, you are too intense."
CRISTINA: "I am too intense? I have been working my ass off making sure nobody here knows. Running your board, learning surgical procedures I shouldn't have to know until my fifth year covering you."
PRESTON: "You're covering me? And I haven't been covering you?"
CRISTINA: "Excuse me?"
PRESTON: "I'm just saying. We're a team."
PRESTON: [to Izzie and Alex] "Neither of you are scrubbing in. Please leave."
ALEX: "Fine, I'll watch from the deck."
PRESTON: "No, you won't. Whatever's going on here, I don't need this negative energy anywhere near my O.R."
