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" Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. "
Eric McCormack
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" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "
Eric McCormack
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World
Will
" I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. "
Eric McCormack
Play
Quiet
Man
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Father
Good
Growing Up
" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
Eric McCormack
Fantastic
Tom
" The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters. "
Eric McCormack
Bed
Canada
Think
" Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky. "
Eric McCormack
Gay
Character
Play
" Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength. "
Eric McCormack
Doubt
Angry
You
" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "
Eric McCormack
Us
Larger
Puzzle
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Me
Training
Amazing
" 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
Me
" I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman. "
Eric McCormack
Woman
Black
Business
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
People
History
Know
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Always
Me
Bedroom
" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
Eric McCormack
Work
Think
Character
" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
Eric McCormack
First
Manager
First Job
" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "
Eric McCormack
Many
Gay
TV
" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "
Eric McCormack
First Grade
Knew
Wanted
" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
Eric McCormack
Earl
Christopher
Saw
" 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). "
Eric McCormack
Better
You
Think
" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "
Eric McCormack
Notre Dame
Moments
Career
" If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'. "
Eric McCormack
Todd
Aerosmith
Am
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Thought
Theatre
Dream
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Hope
Support
End
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Home
Sleep
Sit
" 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.' "
Eric McCormack
Chance
Fun
Character
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Back
My Life
Life
" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
Eric McCormack
Sense
Between
Any
" 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.' "
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View
Me
People
" When you become a father, everything changes. "
Eric McCormack
Changes
You
Father