The racing is definitely the most dominant side. It’s always been that way, it’s my real passion and love, i love the community, the challenge of it emotionally and spiritually. I think it’s really important and I really love the camaraderie and the fellowship within the paddock from everyone involved.

Patrick Dempsey

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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.

Patrick Dempsey

home feelings long

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

Patrick Dempsey

perfect dream thinking

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

Patrick Dempsey

mcdreamy identity lost

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

Patrick Dempsey

racing wife worry

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Patrick Dempsey

taken mistake people

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

Patrick Dempsey

fleeting sometimes people

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.

Patrick Dempsey

careers opportunity thinking

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.

Patrick Dempsey

keys successful want

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

Patrick Dempsey

different feels

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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sexy men mean

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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kissing taste beauty

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

Patrick Dempsey

daughter mother years

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

Patrick Dempsey

strong-women house two

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Patrick Dempsey

funny-wedding funeral musician

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.

Patrick Dempsey

responsibility honor people

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

Patrick Dempsey

competition ego way

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

Patrick Dempsey

teenager first-love firsts

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

Patrick Dempsey

new-york play men

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

Patrick Dempsey

comedy acting drama

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

Patrick Dempsey

sometimes people television