Preston Burke Quotes (Page 7)
Season 2, Episode 26: "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response"
[the cast, narrating]
MEREDITH: "Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive."
GEORGE: "Family"
CRISTINA: "Love"
IZZIE: "Sex"
DEREK: "But we only need one thing"
RICHARD: "To actually be alive."
CRISTINA: "We need a beating heart."
ADDISON: "When our heart is threatened"
ALEX: "We respond in one of two ways."
GEORGE: "We either run or-"
IZZIE: "We attack."
RICHARD: "There's a scientific term for this."
ALEX: "Fight..."
ADDISON: "...or flight."
MIRANDA: "It's instinct."
MEREDITH: "We can't control it."
IZZIE: "Or can we?"
• Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
MIRANDA: "Anything I can get for you, Dr. Burke?"
PRESTON: "No, I'm fine."
MIRANDA: "There, there must be something."
PRESTON: "It would be nice to have some ice chips. And, uh... a touch of morphine, if I'm allowed. And... Cristina."
MIRANDA: "Coming right up. [pauses] Where is Cristina? Where are... where are all the little suck-ups?"
PRESTON: "Excuse me?"
MIRANDA: "My interns. My ass-kissing, surgery-hungry, competitive suck-ups. Where are they? Why aren’t they here fetching you ice chips and morphine? You know something."
PRESTON: "I'm a patient."
MIRANDA: "Preston Xavier Burke, what have you done with my suck-ups?"
• Rating: 4.9 / 5.0
BURKE: "I need… you to… to go check on Denny Duquette."
CRISTINA: "Okay... That was my best supportive girlfriend and you kinda ruined it with medicine. But it's okay."
• Rating: 4.8 / 5.0
Season 2, Episode 23: "Blues For Sister Someone"
PRESTON: "I wasn't like you. I wasn't the most talented student in school. I wasn't the brightest. But I was the best."
CRISTINA: "You practiced."
PRESTON: "I practiced."
• Rating: 4.9 / 5.0
CRISTINA: "He wants you to take it out?"
PRESTON: "Yes... he says he can't play with it."
CRISTINA: "He can't play anymore?"
PRESTON: "He can... but not like Eugene Foote."
• Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
PRESTON: [to George] "You want in on Foote?"
GEORGE: "Yes, but I'm on neuro today with Dr. Shepherd." [runs off]
CRISTINA: "Uh, hello? I want in. I want in!
PRESTON: [pauses] "Oh. Yeah. Sure."
CRISTINA: "Burke, I laid on top of you naked last night, so why don't you wax nostalgic about that?"
• Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
CRISTINA: "What's wrong?"
PRESTON: "Oh, nothing. Just dragging a little. I only did two miles this morning. O'Malley and I were up to six, we pushed each other."
CRISTINA: "Ah, you're missing George."
PRESTON: "No. No, of course not."
CRISTINA: "Drink your coffee."
• Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Season 2, Episode 22: "Name of the Game"
CRISTINA: [enters room naked, in silence]
PRESTON: "Cristina what the hell are you doing?"
CRISTINA: "Getting comfortable in my apartment."
GEORGE: [holds hands over face] "I didn't see anything."
PRESTON: [to George] "Get out!"
CRISTINA: [smiles] "Stick to the basics."
• Rating: 4.9 / 5.0
Season 2, Episode 21: "Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole"
CRISTINA: "What’s up with your hair?"
PRESTON: "Leave the man alone. He’s got issues. If he wants to cut his hair to get over his issues, that’s his business. That's his thing."
GEORGE: "It's my thing!"
• Rating: 4.9 / 5.0
Season 2, Episode 20: "Superstition"
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."
• Rating: 3.8 / 5.0
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