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!

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Family, Love

  Tags in Kiss

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Dinner

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

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Wife

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Career

• 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

  Topics in Job, Money

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Writers And Writing

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

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Work

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Housekeeping

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taste, Kiss

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

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Known

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Part

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

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compliment

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Attention

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Partner, Chance

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Never

Patrick Dempsey (15)

Birth:	13th January, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor and race car driver, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to the series, he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has also appeared in several films, including Sweet Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Valentine's Day, Enchanted, With Honors, Flypaper, Freedom Writers, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

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