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" I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up. "
Eric McCormack
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Love
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" When you become a father, everything changes. "
Eric McCormack
Changes
You
Father
" 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). "
Eric McCormack
Better
You
Think
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Street
Doing
Rider
" 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
" Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength. "
Eric McCormack
Doubt
Angry
You
" 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
" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
Eric McCormack
Ruth
Body
Head
" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "
Eric McCormack
Stage
Love
Incredibly
" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "
Eric McCormack
Notre Dame
Moments
Career
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
Eric McCormack
Stretched
Still
Kid
" When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part. "
Eric McCormack
Only
Guy
Grace
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Wish
Film
People
" 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 knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "
Eric McCormack
First Grade
Knew
Wanted
" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "
Eric McCormack
Tests
Walk
Life
" But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy. "
Eric McCormack
You
Life
Feel
" 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
" 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
" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "
Eric McCormack
Opportunities
Show
Off
" 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
" 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
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
Eric McCormack
Gone
House
I Can
" 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 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 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
Me
Theatre
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Change
Now
Life
" In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter. "
Eric McCormack
Future
Age
Become
" 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 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
" Not a big sci-fi guy. "
Eric McCormack
Sci-Fi
Big
Guy