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" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
Eric McCormack
Earl
Christopher
Saw
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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. "
Eric McCormack
Years
Working
Me
" That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.' "
Eric McCormack
Nothing
Character
Grace
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Myself
Parenting
Having Fun
" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
Eric McCormack
Fantastic
Tom
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Dinner
Coffee
Wife
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Think
Audience
Love
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Brain
Amazing
You
" Not a big sci-fi guy. "
Eric McCormack
Sci-Fi
Big
Guy
" 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
Me
People
" I have to challenge the audience. "
Eric McCormack
Audience
Challenge
" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "
Eric McCormack
Myself
Epitaph
Challenge
" 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
Me
Loved
Love
" I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own. "
Eric McCormack
Know
Love
Learning
" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "
Eric McCormack
Stage
Love
Incredibly
" Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation. "
Eric McCormack
Enough
Health
Men
" I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman. "
Eric McCormack
Woman
Black
Business
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Day
Back
Character
" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "
Eric McCormack
Many
Gay
TV
" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "
Eric McCormack
Risks
Taking Risks
Audience
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
People
Crazy
Day
" I could probably eat sushi every day. "
Eric McCormack
Sushi
Every
Eat
" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "
Eric McCormack
Funny
World
Will
" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "
Eric McCormack
Feel
World
Want
" 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
" There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience. "
Eric McCormack
Live
Voice
Saying
" 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.' "
Eric McCormack
Think
Perception
Grace
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
Eric McCormack
Stretched
Still
Kid
" 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
Me
Bedroom
" 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.' "
Eric McCormack
Chance
Fun
Character