Patrick Dempsey Quotations

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

I got a lot out of it; it made me a much better man. But with the age people wind up going through two different cycles in their lives.

I think it's made me who I am today.

I think that's when I get the most insecure ... it's very hard for me to read it off the page. I need to memorize it, in order to go on.

We shot everything. We had no idea what was going to happen. If the show was going to be any good. We hadn't seen anything. So when it finally came out and started building this momentum, we were all extremely pleased and shocked at the success of it.

We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without her. We love her and respect her immensely and she makes us look good.

We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand that and show what their relationship is to the city. I'm certainly lobbying for that. I'm falling in love with the city, and I want to spend more time up here. ... There's nothing that makes you feel like Seattle in Burbank.

We were on the waterfront, now we're here. And I think we're doing some street scenes. It's good for us as a cast. We were out last night at a restaurant and we're getting a sense of what the community is like, what the restaurants are like, what the people are like and that will help inform us and be much more specific when we're shooting.

It's given me a perspective of -- you have to keep working. I have never given up.

The biggest issue was figuring out what the pecking order was,

I really love it now. But I also have a life outside it, with Jill and Tallulah. I am really thankful that it is all going well.

I base all my characters on hair.

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

I'm really happy to have a family and a life outside of the business.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Oh, she's my bodyguard. I mean, I'm a married man, and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy individual. But I try to never let this whole McDreamy thing really influence us. I'm trying to just have a calm family life, to make my marriage work. It's not as if when my wife asks me to take out the trash, I say, 'Um, honey, don't you realize that I'm too sexy for that'? Well, actually, I do, but she gives me crap for it.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don't. Not all people are going to like you and you have to come to [terms] with that.

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans, and without that you don't have a career.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family