82 Quotes by Patrick Dempsey

My wife and I try not to get into each other’s work too much.

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.

I’m really happy to have a family and a life outside of the business.

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

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I’d grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn’t look back.

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.

Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

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 think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.