Quotes from Erik

Erik on Dave:

"Dr. Dave doesn't care for rules. You'll find out what's behind the bravado eventually."
-Erik in the National Post

"When he decided to become a doctor it wasn't for any kind of status. My character is really addicted to the adrenaline. He's really into getting into the guts, for getting in there and possibly saving someone. That's what his turn on is and that's what makes him tick."
-Erik in TV Guide (Canadian)

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Erik on Fans:

"I get dirty looks on the street... I had one person come up to me and say: 'Why did you call that patient a veggie burger?' I didn't write it!"
-from the Calgary Sun

"They get mad. I think because television comes into people's homes [they feel as if] you're part of their family. So they have that kind of visceral reaction and they carry it all the way to the mall, you know?"
-from TV Guide (US) on ER fans reaction to his character

 

"Um, I don't know if this is Vanessa's answering machine but I just ran... into your friends and, uh, and this is Erik Palladino... I just wanted to say hello and thanks for watching. Bye."
-Erik Palladino, Sunday, July 2nd, 2000 on *my* answering machine

 

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Erik on Erik

"God, women... I love 'em."
-Erik in People Magazine

"I don't fight with people. I'm an actor now. I gotta worry about my looks."
-Erik in People Magazine

"I like being naked. I like running around naked. I like the freedom of it."
-Erik is Us Weekly

 

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Assorted

"Well, at least she's not a symbol."
-on Ming-Na's decision to drop 'Wen' from her name

"I'll do it the way you want, if you just tell me who won."
-to Survivor host, Jeff Probst, who directed Erik's movie 'Finder's Fee'

"Well, a couple of people left [last year], so there's more room. I mean Julianna Margulies - she took so much space - you know they wrote her character like she had something to do with the success of the show!"
-on Julianna Margulies

"I told him that I was going to kick his ass if I heard him say to anybody 'What is this word 'hunk?' ever again."
-Erik on Goran Visnjic

 

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