Quotes from Patrick Dempsey

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.