House M.D. (TV Series)

Finding Judas (2006)

Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Quotes 

• Judge : Dr. Cuddy, what do you think of Dr. House? Is he as big a jerk as I think he is?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Bigger.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [Cuddy is in her office, crying. Wilson comes in]  I'm busy.

  Dr. Wilson : You okay?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Yeah, sure.

  Dr. Wilson : Um, what I mean by "Are you okay?" is "What the hell did House do?"

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Nothing.

  Dr. Wilson : What did he say?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I've seen House been rude a thousand times, usually to achieve something. I have never seen him be mean just because he can.

  Dr. Wilson : Seriously? What did he say?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [sighs]  Nothing. Doesn't matter.

  Dr. Wilson : Well, I've seen House be rude to you a thousand times, but I've never seen it get it to you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : People think that House has no inner censor. The fact is he holds himself back because when he wants to hurt, he knows just where to poke a sharp stick.

  [sniffs] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I have been trying to get pregnant and House knew. He told me I was a failure as a mother.

  Dr. Wilson : And you're upset because you think he's right?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I have had three separate implantations: the first two never took, the last one I... lost.

  Dr. Wilson : I'm sorry. You didn't fail. Those were physical events.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : A little girl is scared and in pain. I was awkward, terrified of doing the wrong thing.

  Dr. Wilson : That's normal, that's...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I didn't hug her. I didn't even... reach out and hold her hand. I told her it was gonna be okay.

  Dr. Wilson : She needed reassurance.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I told her her folks might get back together.

  [laughs wrily] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : When I see people with their kids, it's so natural. It's like they have an instruction book imprinted on their genes.

  [voice breaking] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Maybe I just didn't get a copy. Maybe my wanting to be a mother is like a tone-deaf person wanting to sing opera or a paraplegic who wants to...

  Dr. Wilson : Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

  [sighs] 

  Dr. Wilson : Well, I see what you mean about House poking the right spot.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : We are gonna use this machine to clean your blood. It goes out of you and through the filter like the filter in a fish tank. So it's kinda cool actually.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Tritter]  My head of Oncology had to shut down. My entire staff are afraid to make a move without covering their ass.

  Michael Tritter : I think you're angry at the wrong person.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You think Dr. Wilson deserved to have his assets seized? His entire practice ruined?

  Michael Tritter : No.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : So, you just don't care?

  Michael Tritter : This is how I get what I want. I put pressure... on people, and if it doesn't work on Wilson, it'll work on you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You punish the innocent.

  Michael Tritter : None of you are innocent. Not one of you, not one of you has told me the truth about Dr. House.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : The pills allow him to cope with the pain.

  Michael Tritter : No, the pills distort reality. He's an addict.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : He's not out robbing a liquor store or...

  Michael Tritter : Look, he's treating people. He needs to find a different way to cope before he kills somebody, if he hasn't done that already.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : If you're right, he has a medical problem. It should be dealt with by doctors, not by the...!

  Michael Tritter : Well, it's not being dealt with by doctors. Doctors are covering it up. The whole point of the criminal justice system is to make things right when everything else fails. With all due respect, you have failed.

• Dr. Gregory House : Where's my prescription?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : No more free-flowing prescriptions. Princeton PD has already forced Wilson to shut down.

  Dr. Gregory House : A cop says, "Boo," Wilson shuts down.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Every doctor in this place is afraid to make a move without covering his ass.

  Dr. Gregory House : You think maybe you're shouting at the wrong person? Tritter's obviously out to get me. He doesn't care...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You forged prescriptions!

  Dr. Gregory House : Allegedly.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Your pain has become my pain. From now on, you get reasonable doses at reasonable times.

  Dr. Gregory House : But I hurt in an unreasonable way.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then dip into your secret stash.

  Dr. Gregory House : Tritter took it.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then move on to your secret-secret stash.

  Dr. Gregory House : I ran out.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then move on to your secret-secret-secret stash!

• Dr. Gregory House : [yells]  I need more pills!

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : No! You are on a reasonable...

  Dr. Gregory House : What the hell does "reasonable" mean?

  [Alice's heart rate and blood pressure go up and her monitor beeps] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Keep it quiet. Her BP reacts to stress and yelling is not go...

  Dr. Gregory House : You think that I'm not in pain, then don't give me anything. Keep me away from the aspirin. If I'm in a buttload of pain, I need a buttload of pills.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Fine, you need more pills! You're not getting them. You can have the aspirin you want.

  [House walks out of the room] 

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I say we draw straws. Loser drives out to Trenton, scores him an 8-ball.

• Dr. Gregory House : [of an infrared pointer]  This baby won me second place in the Clinic's weekly "weirdest thing pulled out of an orifice" contest.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I am this close to putting a new lab in oncology.

  Dr. Gregory House : You do not want to know what came in first.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : House...

  Dr. Gregory House : Rhymes with "fucchini."