Patrick Dempsey famous quotes

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
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Home #Long #Feelings

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

#Dream #Thinking #Perfect

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

#Wife #Worry #Racing

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

#Drama #Acting #Emotion

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Successful #Keys #Want

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

#People #Television #Sometimes

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Funeral #Funny Wedding #Musician

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

#Competition #Ego #Way

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#California #Important #Maine

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Wonder #Los Angeles #Found

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Responsibility #People #Honor

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

#Racing #Bike

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

#Strong Women #Two #House

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

#Passion #Biking #Enjoy

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

#Beauty #Kissing #Taste

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Shopping #Experts #Able

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!
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Daughter #Mother #Hate

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Sexy #Mean #Men

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
-- Patrick Dempsey

#New York #Men #Play

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
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Thinking #Vision #Tvs

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Children #Kids #Men

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
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Jobs #Kids #Weekend

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
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Book #Kids #House

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Stars #Too Much #Maine

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

#Wife #Trying #Too Much

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Doors #Going Out #Chance

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Self #Views #Political

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

#Book #House #Trying

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Quality #Tears #Pay

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Mistake #Taken #People

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

#Sleep #Luxury #Wow

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

#Children #Thinking #Three

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Comedy

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

#Identity #Mcdreamy #Lost

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

#Mother #Daughter #Years

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Nice #Careers #Looks

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

#Teenager #First Love #Firsts

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

#Money #Economics

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.
-- Patrick Dempsey

#Children #Dad #Kids