Amy Brenneman
Violet Turner is portrayed by Amy Brenneman in the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice. The first appearance of Violet was in "The Other Side of This Life, Part 1" in Grey's Anatomy as part of the back-door pilot episode of the new series.
Character History
Violet is a psychiatrist at the Oceanside Wellness Centre. Though she tells her patients that happiness can be attained with focus, she fails to find any happiness in her life. She even questions the usefulness of her chosen profession. Six months prior, her boyfriend Allan had split up with her and she is, to this day, still torn by the break-up. Making it worse is that she ran into Allan in a supermarket to discover that he'd gotten married to a younger woman only a few months after their break-up. This has shaken Violet badly and she's taken to "stalking" Allan with constant calls as she tries to deal with him moving on while she is unable to. Violet is good friends with her coworker, Cooper Freedman, often getting him out of humiliating situations with women. Violet is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists.
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Quotes
Cooper: You're just... you're, uh, you're just honest. That's your fatal flaw. It's my favorite thing about you.
Violet: All right.
Cooper: Come here.
Violet: You want to help me run the bike over with my car?
Cooper: Absolutely.
Violet: (Speaking to Cooper) What do you know about women that you didn't get off the internet?
Cooper: You are listening to Alan's message again?
Violet: I have other messages. From patients.
Cooper: Do your patients tell you to pick up Chienese and that they love you?
Violet: Thanks, for coming down.
Cooper: I'm a better person than you are.
Pete: Just a hint. You don't have to tell us the...
Violet: He calls himself Trunk.
Cooper: Okay... well, when I think "trunk" in relation to a guy, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Elephants' trunks, very large... oh! Is he... freakishly large? Is he hideously...
Violet: I can't tell you!
Cooper: Trunk!
Violet: I like your breasts.
Addison: You have a good ass.
Violet: Thank you! I like it.
Naomi: Hey hey hey! The point is, we should not be having sex in the office.
Violet :Who is having sex in the office?
Naomi: No one. No one! That's the point! It gets complicated, you just... you don't know where you stand.
Violet: Were you completely naked? Did you stand in front of him like a pealed banana while he looked over your best parts? Because I have good parts and Cooper passed on them. I have good parts!
Violet: Rip off the bandaid, Coop. I did.
Cooper: Yeah... can't.
Violet: You... you have to... you've already seen me naked.
Cooper: I know, and you're... beautiful. I'm sorry. I... thought I could but...
Violet: You can't reject me, you have low standards... you have no standards!
Cooper: It's different, Violet.
Violet: No, it's not different! I... I am offering you uncomplicated, unemotional sex.
Cooper: No! You're... you're not some random girl from the internet, with you it doesn't mean nothing... it never will...
Cooper: Oh, you're... wow, you're naked.
Violet: Yeah, it makes the sex easier.
Cooper: It's just, ah, I've never seen you naked. In the office you always have your clothes on.
Violet: Well, yeah, I try to be a professional.