Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor and race car driver, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherdon Grey's Anatomy. He saw early success as an actor, starring in a number of films in his early 20s, including Can't Buy Me Loveand Loverboy. In the 1990s, he mostly appeared in smaller roles in film, such as Outbreak, and television, before landing a lead role in Sweet Home Alabama, a surprise box office hit. He has since then...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 January 1966
CityLewiston, ME
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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.
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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.
passion biking enjoy
If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.
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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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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
jobs kids weekend
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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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.
wonder los-angeles found
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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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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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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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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With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.
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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.