Patrick Dempsey Quotes
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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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.
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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.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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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.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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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.
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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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.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.