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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. "

Eric McCormack

Father

Good

Growing Up

" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "

Eric McCormack

Fantastic

Tom

" The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote. "

Eric McCormack

Important

Just

" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "

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

" 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

People

" 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. "

" 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

Fact

Place

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. "

Eric McCormack

Growing Up

Theatre

" 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. "

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

" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "

" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "

" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "

" We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye. "

" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "

" Shelter dogs should be adopted into loving homes, not used in cruel experiments. That's why I support the Cruelty Free International global dog campaign. "

" You can write your own history. "

" I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will). "

" 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.' "

" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "

" 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

My Life

Always