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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. "
Eric McCormack
Me
Training
Amazing
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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. "
Eric McCormack
Dinner
Coffee
Wife
" 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
" 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? "
Eric McCormack
Historical
Will
Future
" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "
Eric McCormack
Lawyer
Forensics
Want
" There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere. "
Eric McCormack
People
History
Know
" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
Eric McCormack
First
Manager
First Job
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
More
My Life
Always
" You're damned in success a little bit. "
Eric McCormack
Bit
You
Success
" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "
Eric McCormack
Bride
Working
Great
" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "
Eric McCormack
Stage
Love
Incredibly
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Home
Sleep
Sit
" My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father's years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it. "
Eric McCormack
Never
Doing
Father
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Me
Fact
Place
" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
Eric McCormack
Work
Think
Character
" Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. "
Eric McCormack
Spring
Big
Avenue
" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
Eric McCormack
Sense
Between
Any
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Big
Along
Cheers
" When you become a father, everything changes. "
Eric McCormack
Changes
You
Father
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
Eric McCormack
Gone
House
I Can
" 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 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. "
Eric McCormack
Me
People
Fun
" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "
Eric McCormack
Side
Start
Other
" I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!' "
Eric McCormack
Who
Find
Knew
" I have to challenge the audience. "
Eric McCormack
Audience
Challenge
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Gay
Character
Play
" Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline. "
Eric McCormack
You
Day
Funny
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Hope
Support
End
" 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.' "
Eric McCormack
Purpose
Great
Will