Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

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

" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "

" 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. "

" The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine. "

" I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.' "

" Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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). "

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

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

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

Eric McCormack

Larger

Puzzle

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

" 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. "

" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "

" 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

Bedroom

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

" Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. "

" With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands. "

Eric McCormack

Because

Words

" 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. "

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