House M.D. (TV Series)

Heavy (2005)

Jennifer Morrison: Dr. Allison Cameron

Quotes 

• Dr. Gregory House : Who would you fire?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No one.

  Dr. Gregory House : Not an option.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : If everyone took a paycut and put in a few more hours, we could all stay for the same amount of money.

  Dr. Gregory House : Figures you'd try to come up with a solution where no one gets hurt. The problem is the world doesn't work that way just 'cause you want it to.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Figures you'd stall and refuse to deal with the issue. Problem is, the world doesn't go away just because you want it to.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : It's some kind of game. House's own version of "Punk'd."

  Dr. Allison Cameron : It's not House. It's Vogler. We can't let it get to us, we've got to stick together.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Why?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : What are you suggesting, that we start slashing each other's throats?

  Dr. Robert Chase : I'm suggesting it's a zero-sum game. Your loss is my win. That's not conducive to team play.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Which is what House seems to want. I'm with Cameron. May be a bad strategy, but I don't want to give House the satisfaction.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : I apologize if it looked like we weren't devoting our full attention to your daughter, but I assure you that we...

  Mrs. Simms : Oh, please. Save your pathetic insincerity for your boyfriend.

  Dr. Gregory House : You're wrong. She is in fact pathetically sincere.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : Everything in society tells us we have to be thin to be successful.

  Dr. Robert Chase : No, society tells you you have to be thin to be attractive. And guess what, that's what attractive means: that society likes looking at you.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I think we should be telling our kids it's fine as long as they're healthy.

  Dr. Robert Chase : All right. You weigh 90 pounds because it makes you healthier?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Forget it. He's just cranky because he's the one who's going to get the axe.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [after the doctors learn that Jessica has taken weight loss pills]  I can't believe she was that desperate.

  Dr. Gregory House : Yeah, I'm sure that if everyone I knew hated me, I couldn't bear to look at me. I wouldn't go so far as to shoplift.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I'm not talking about the shoplifting.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I'm sure she didn't even know they were dangerous. She probably saw them advertised on TV or over the internet.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Right, so I guess it's the media and pharmaceutical companies' fault now? Not the fact that she can't stop shoving food down her throat. No one forced her to get fat.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No one forced a cancer patient to get cancer.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Give me a break. It's not a disease.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Have you seen the latest research?

  Dr. Robert Chase : Yes, I have. What I haven't seen lately is a kid eating an apple or riding a bike. You Americans can't even compete with the rest of the world in basketball anymore unless, of course, it's the type you play with a remote control on a big screen TV.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Right.

  [gets up and starts to walk off] 

  Dr. Gregory House : [to Foreman]  Wait! Are you going to let him say that? He insulted our basketball teams!

• Dr. Robert Chase : Extremely obese patients can get a fat embolus.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Right, after they get liposuction which she's clearly never had.

  Dr. Robert Chase : How do you know?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Because we have her medical records and because no plastic surgeon in his right mind is going to give a 10-year-old liposuction!

  Dr. Robert Chase : Have you ever met a plastic surgeon who was in their right mind?

• Edward Vogler : [to Cuddy]  What's the status on House?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : He asked for time to complete performance reviews on everyone in his department.

  Edward Vogler : And you told him no and gave him how long?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : A week. He'll do it.

  [Cameron starts to walk up to Cuddy and Vogler] 

  Edward Vogler : Guy's never done what he's told. Don't see why he's going to start now.

  [walks over to talk to Cameron] 

  Edward Vogler : Hi! Edward Vogler. Is Dr. House claiming that I'm forcing him to get rid of one of you? I assume his goal is to stir up antagonism toward me.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : And your goal is?

  Edward Vogler : I am forcing him. I'll do whatever I can to ease the transition for whoever he chooses.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : If you're feeling guilty about your decision, there is an easy solution.

  Edward Vogler : I don't feel guilty.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Then why approach me and tell me all this?

  Edward Vogler : I don't feel guilty, that doesn't mean I don't feel bad. I'm rich, but I'm still human.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to Chase]  Making me look bad is not going to save your job.

  Dr. Robert Chase : You think you're incapable of making a mistake?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : You think that I am that weak that I am just going to roll over and take this?

  Dr. Robert Chase : House isn't just going to protect you because you kiss his ass!

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to House]  Can we talk?

  Dr. Gregory House : What, no roses, no chocolates?