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" Because I had three years on 'Perception,' I think I succeeded in showing I can do other things, and I can create a different audience, even from people who loved 'Will & Grace.' "

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" That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.' "

Eric McCormack

Nothing

Character

Grace

" I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.' "

Eric McCormack

View

People

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

" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "

" There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience. "

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

" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "

Eric McCormack

Larger

Puzzle

" I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. "

Eric McCormack

Actor

Always

" Not a big sci-fi guy. "

" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "

Eric McCormack

Many

Gay

" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "

Eric McCormack

Fantastic

Tom

" I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it. "

Eric McCormack

Years

Working

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "

" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "

" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "

" I would come home with my friend Bill, and we would sit and watch 'Get Smart.' And I was Agent 44, and he was Agent 85. And it was a fantastic - and all we wanted to do was sleep with Barbara Feldon. "

" 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. "

" You can write your own history. "

" 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. "

" 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). "

" I know where TNT's sweet spot is, and when I read 'Perception,' I thought, 'This is a chance to play a fascinating, fun, challenging character but still within the realm of something that will sit very well with 'The Closer' and 'Major Crimes' and the other shows there.' "

" Shelter dogs should be adopted into loving homes, not used in cruel experiments. That's why I support the Cruelty Free International global dog campaign. "

" 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. "

" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "

" You're damned in success a little bit. "

" I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!' "

" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "

" If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood. "