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" 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. "

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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

" I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!' "

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

" 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

Training

Amazing

" 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that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments. "

" I have to challenge the audience. "

Eric McCormack

Audience

Challenge

" As much as I loved Pacino and De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms. I grew up on 'M*A*S*H' and 'All In The Family' and 'Cheers.' And then around this time - this would have been '95, '96 - I was so into 'Friends' and 'Mad About You,' the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. "

" 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 love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own. "

" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "

Eric McCormack

Larger

Puzzle

" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "

" 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 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

People

Fun

" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "

" 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 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

Loved

Love

" 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.' "

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

" 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 think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "

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

" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "

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

" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "

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

" You can write your own history. "

" It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine. "

" 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. "

" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "

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