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.

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.

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

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.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.