Patrick Dempsey Quotes

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there and auditioned just like everybody else. They hired me for 'Hairspray' to help sell tickets for a few weeks, but I ended up being there much longer than originally planned and started to carve a niche for myself.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.