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
wife trying too-much
My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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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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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.
competition ego way
With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.
daughter mother hate
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!
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
book kids house
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
nice careers looks
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.
thinking vision tvs
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
teenager first-love firsts
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
drama acting emotion
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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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.
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.