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.
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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.
Eventually feels a lot different than actually.
Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.
I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.
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.
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.
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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.
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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.
One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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.
Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.
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.
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.
I'm really happy to have a family and a life outside of the business.
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
