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Famous Patrick Dempsey Quotes

“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.”

Want Persons Accepting Successful Keys Dear Successful Marriage Yes Dear

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“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.”

Looks Important Wanted Left Towns California Maine

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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.”

Found Lost Wonder Like Me Los Angeles

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

Way Ego Competition Hubris

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“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.”

People Way Want Two Happens Together Comedy Overcoming Obstacles What You Want

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“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.”

Thinking Certain Opportunity Careers Fans Amount Fame Window Window Of Opportunity

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“Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.”

People Sometimes Term Like You Fame Fleeting

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

Really Happy

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“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.”

Thinking Want Long Together Attention Too Much Materials Direct Developing Appeals Attention Span Too Much Work

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“Eventually feels a lot different than actually.”

Feels Different

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“I base all my characters on hair.”

Character Hair

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“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.”

Thinking Want Giving Children Kids Life Is Asks Answers Levels Childhood Dad Comfort My Children Your Children

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

Money Economics

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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!”

Ifs Knows Littles Faces Mother Hate Wife Easier Kissing Daughter I Hate Clean My Wife Shaving Wife And Daughter Clean Shaven

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

Years Said Mother One Day Daughter Compliment Handsome Poppies

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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.”

Acting Emotion Comedy Easier Drama Harder Caught

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

Thinking Dream Perfect Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Dreams Can Come True

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

Knows Important Worry Wife Dangerous My Wife Racing

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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.”

Men Needs Trying Children Kids Three Attention Balance Hardest Odd Hardest Thing Odd Man

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“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.”

Chance Doors Worst Married Partners Going Out Connecting Being Married

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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”

Men Play Together Three Talent New York Theater Competition Dinner Golden Agents Routine Ponds One Liner Maine Juggling

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“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”

Thinking Different Ends Film Vision Tvs Directors Mediums

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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”

Firsts Shows Kids Jobs Used Hours Half Competition International Making Money Division Weekend Juniors Ohio Half Hours Cleveland Jugglers Cleveland Ohio

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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.”

Long Matter Feelings Home Married Our Family Coming Home Being Married

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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”

Ifs Trying Book Kids Three House Difficult Insane Relaxed Picture Books Housekeeping

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“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.”

“My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.”

Wells Bigs Beauty Taste Kissing Big Things Lipstick

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“A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.”

Musician Funeral Funny Wedding

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

Trying Too Much Wife My Wife

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“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.”

Wanted Actors Left Stars Too Much Maine

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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.”

Looks I Can Careers Nice Grew Grew Up My Family Towns Raises Los Angeles Small Town

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

Lost Known Identity Mcdreamy

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

Ifs Passion Enjoy Biking

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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.”

Firsts Whole Whole Life Teenager First Love

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

Two House Strong Grew Grew Up Very Strong Mum Strong Women Older Sister

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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.”

Comfortable Racing Bike

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

Comedy Physical Comedy

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

Thinking Way Children Bigs Three Easier Big Families

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

Ifs I Can Sleep Luxury Wow

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“People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.”

People Sometimes Mistake Taken Serious

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

People Ifs Sometimes Television Old People Storyline

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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.”

Pay Quality Cases Tears Endure Bike

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

Ifs Trying Book House Insane Picture Books Housekeeping

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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.”

Ifs Important Self Political Views Share Balance Careful Point Of View Be Careful Entertaining

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“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.”

Helping Able Sound Obvious Stores Experts Shopping Bike Specialty

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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.”

People Responsibility Saws Dangerous Honor Fame Creatures Empty Destroyed Delicate Taking Responsibility Stardom

Author:Patrick Dempsey

About the Author

Born: January 13, 1966
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 46

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