The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

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.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

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

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

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