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

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.

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.

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!

Do what is right, not what is important.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

No, I can't do rap music...

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.

Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game.

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.