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" I have to challenge the audience. "
Eric McCormack
Audience
Challenge
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" 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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" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "
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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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" 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
" 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. "
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Brain
Amazing
You
" The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote. "
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Just
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" You're damned in success a little bit. "
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Bit
You
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" My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. "
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Romantic
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" I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one. "
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Big
Along
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" It's very strange - several years ago, I was in the running for the 'Young Frankenstein' musical. Kristin Chenoweth was going to do it, but then she backed out because she got 'Pushing Daisies' on TV, and then, the next day, I went in for my final-final audition, and I saw Megan Mullally standing there. "
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Day
Got
She
" 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. "
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Image
Power
" Not a big sci-fi guy. "
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" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
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Head
" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
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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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" 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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" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "
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" As much as I loved Pacino and De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms. I grew up on 'M*A*S*H' and 'All In The Family' and 'Cheers.' And then around this time - this would have been '95, '96 - I was so into 'Friends' and 'Mad About You,' the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. "
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You
Family
Friends
" 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
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" I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life. "
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Me
Loved
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" I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
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