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
children thinking three
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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
thinking long together
I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.
opportunity thinking careers
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.
dream thinking perfect
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
community good help inform last night people restaurant specific street
We were on the waterfront, now we're here. And I think we're doing some street scenes. It's good for us as a cast. We were out last night at a restaurant and we're getting a sense of what the community is like, what the restaurants are like, what the people are like and that will help inform us and be much more specific when we're shooting.
certainly expand falling love personal relationship relationships seattle spend time
We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand that and show what their relationship is to the city. I'm certainly lobbying for that. I'm falling in love with the city, and I want to spend more time up here. ... There's nothing that makes you feel like Seattle in Burbank.
immensely love respect
We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without her. We love her and respect her immensely and she makes us look good.
biggest figuring issue order
The biggest issue was figuring out what the pecking order was,
given perspective
It's given me a perspective of -- you have to keep working. I have never given up.
building came extremely finally pleased seen shocked shot success
We shot everything. We had no idea what was going to happen. If the show was going to be any good. We hadn't seen anything. So when it finally came out and started building this momentum, we were all extremely pleased and shocked at the success of it.
I think it's made me who I am today.
hard insecure memorize order
I think that's when I get the most insecure ... it's very hard for me to read it off the page. I need to memorize it, in order to go on.
age cycles people wind
I got a lot out of it; it made me a much better man. But with the age people wind up going through two different cycles in their lives.