Patrick Dempsey quotes:

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

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.

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

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

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

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.

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.

I base all my characters on hair.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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