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" I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of. "
Eric McCormack
Street
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Rider
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Always
" Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. "
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" Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. "
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Big
Avenue
" At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef. "
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Coffee
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" I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older. "
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Having Fun
" 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. "
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People
Crazy
Day
" I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact. "
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Me
Fact
Place
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
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House
I Can
" 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. "
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Bed
Canada
Think
" Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation. "
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Enough
Health
Men
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
Eric McCormack
Stretched
Still
Kid
" 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. "
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Because
Words
Me
" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
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Creative
You
Long
" 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
" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
Eric McCormack
Sense
Between
Any
" 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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You
Life
Feel
" 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.' "
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Will
" 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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" 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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Me
Training
Amazing
" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "
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Notre Dame
Moments
Career
" 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. "
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Hope
Support
End
" 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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Taking Risks
Audience
" 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. "
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Dog
Why
Support
" 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. "
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People
Group
Small
" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "
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Bride
Working
Great
" This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives? "
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Future
" It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore. "
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World
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