Patrick Dempsey

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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