When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that

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

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

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

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