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

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.

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

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

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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

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.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

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.

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!

Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world inside of you.

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.