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" 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.' "

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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. "

Eric McCormack

Talk

Fun

Funny

" 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

" 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. "

" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "

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

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

Eric McCormack

Mix

Love

" 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. "

" We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies. "

" 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.' "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

Eric McCormack

Loved

Love

" Not a big sci-fi guy. "

" 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 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. "

" 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

Training

Amazing

" 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 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. "

" You're damned in success a little bit. "