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" As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. "
Eric McCormack
Parent
Image
Power
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" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "
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" I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life. "
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" But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy. "
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" In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter. "
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" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
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" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "
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" Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline. "
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" I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will). "
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You
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" I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor. "
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" There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere. "
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People
History
Know
" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
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Think
Character
" My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. "
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Manager
Romantic
Most
" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "
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Feel
World
Want
" I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying. "
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Me
People
Fun
" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "
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Forensics
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" My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father's years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it. "
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Never
Doing
Father
" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
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First
Manager
First Job
" As much as I loved Pacino and De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms. I grew up on 'M*A*S*H' and 'All In The Family' and 'Cheers.' And then around this time - this would have been '95, '96 - I was so into 'Friends' and 'Mad About You,' the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. "
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You
Family
Friends
" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "
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Done
AIDS
Lot
" That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves. "
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" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "
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" Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction. "
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Father
Good
Growing Up
" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
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Ruth
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Head
" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "
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Wife
Nice
Camper
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
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House
I Can
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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Still
Kid
" I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. "
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Does
Stuff
Playing
" I could probably eat sushi every day. "
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Eat
" I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me. "
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