Actor Quotes

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.