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Ellen Pompeo says she wouldn't have stayed on Grey's Anatomy so long if she sought critical acclaim

Ellen Pompeo speaks frankly about why she's stayed on 'Grey's Anatomy' for so long. Part of her reasoning was that she wanted 'financial and job security.'

“On Grey's, you really only get an opportunity to be nominated for things in your first few seasons, and so that time had clearly passed," Pompeo told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. Still, in April, the recipient of awards including a 2007 Golden Globes nomination (for TV actress in a drama for Grey's) said she has no plans to leave completely. Pompeo played Kristine Barnett, who adopted Grace (Imogen Faith Reid) with her then-husband Michael Burnett (Mark Duplass).

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