Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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 started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
