House M.D. (TV Series)

Joy (2008)

Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : She's not a crack baby.

  Dr. Gregory House : No, mother's perfectly healthy. She just had to give up the baby in order to continue her work on the human genome.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : She confessed to some past meth use.

  Dr. Gregory House : What they don't confess to is almost always more interesting. This is a mistake.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Because a kid you don't know may have some problems you don't know about that she may have passed on to a kid?

  Dr. Gregory House : Because you're a control seeking narcissist. Which is fine, good even in some jobs. But you're not equipped to handle a real kid, never mind a factory second. Where are you meeting her?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : In a little place called "Follow me and your urologist will be buying himself a new yacht."

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Why do you need to negate everything?

  Dr. Gregory House : I don't know.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Thirty-seven-year-old male with recurring blackouts.

  Dr. Gregory House : Tell him to switch from tequila to bourbon. Worked for me.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Stop pressuring her.

  Dr. Gregory House : Sorry. Daddy's perfectly healthy, but we want you to give him a kidney anyway because it'd be cool if he had three.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Why do you even care? It's not like I'm ever going to ask you to babysit.

  Dr. Gregory House : I'm a humanitarian.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Let me guess. I'm gonna tell her not to play ball in the house, but she's not gonna listen.

  Dr. Gregory House : No, actually, I was going for "She sneaks her boyfriend in while you're sleeping and he wants to do it on the desk." And at first she says no, but she has issues with self-esteem.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Becca]  The baby's doing great. I... I can't imagine how hard this must be for you.

  Becca : I was... I was stupid and selfish.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You were scared.

  Becca : Yeah, but you wouldn't have been.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : That's not true.

  Becca : Well, I mean, you would've been scared, but... You would've done the right thing anyway. And I want to be like that. I don't... I don't want to be a loser.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You're not a loser.

  Becca : When I saw you hold her and the look on your face, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. And that's when I realized... I can't.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Becca.

  Becca : My life, it's always been about pain and anger, and disappointment. Never about love. And that's when I realized, you know, it could be. And I can't give that away.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Becca, don't do this. Uh... what you're feeling is natural, but you're filled with hormones, and emotion, and fear, and... you just can't make a huge decision like this right now. You have to give it some time.

  Becca : I am... I'm so sorry.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : It's a decision that changes everything. Changes the rest of your life.

  Becca : I hope so.

• Becca : [to Cuddy]  Well, is there anything you want to ask me? It's okay.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : The agency website is filled with prospective parents. Their photos, their biographies. There's so many wonderful people out there. Wonderful couples.

  Becca : Why did I choose a single mom? My grandmother was married for 37 years to a man that treated her like garbage. And my mom would've stayed married to my loser dad that long, but he dumped her. You know, I never understood how you could fall for the same crap as your mother. Then I met Tony. When I read your bio, a doctor, a head of a hospital, I saw your picture. I don't want her raised by a loser.