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" I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying. "

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" 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. "

Eric McCormack

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Life

Feel

" 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 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. "

" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "

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

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

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

" 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

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

" My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. "

" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Eric McCormack

Many

Gay

" 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. "

" I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up. "

Eric McCormack

Mix

Love

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. "

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

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

" 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.' "