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" If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. "

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

" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "

" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "

" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "

" Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation. "

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

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

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

" With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" You can write your own history. "

" I did a film a couple years ago called 'Who Is Clark Rockefeller?' It was a role that I was really proud of that I wish more people could go back and rediscover. "

" 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'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.' "

" 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? "

" I could probably eat sushi every day. "

" I have to challenge the audience. "

" 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. "

" In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter. "

" 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. "

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

" When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part. "

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

" 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. "

" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "