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" 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 'MAS*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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" As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have. "

Eric McCormack

My Life

Always

" Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. "

" In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter. "

" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "

" Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure. "

" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "

" When you become a father, everything changes. "

" I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. "

" When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part. "

" It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore. "

" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "

" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "

" I'm not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the 'Sopranos.' "

" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "

" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "

" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "

" We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies. "

" I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments. "

" I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own. "

" Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation. "

" Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline. "

" I did a film a couple years ago called 'Who Is Clark Rockefeller?' It was a role that I was really proud of that I wish more people could go back and rediscover. "

" I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day. "

" 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. "

" I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. "

Eric McCormack

Growing Up

Theatre

" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "

" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "

" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "

" I always kind of dreamed locally - I never really ever dream that I would be south of the border; I dreamed about being a theatre star in Toronto, and maybe I'd do Stratford and regional stuff. I always thought it would be a slow growth. "

" I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. "