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" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
Eric McCormack
Stretched
Still
Kid
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "
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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. "
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" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "
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" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "
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" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "
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" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
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" Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation. "
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" 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. "
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" I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. "
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Playing
" I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. "
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Quiet
Man
" 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. "
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Dinner
Coffee
Wife
" 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. "
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Words
Me
" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "
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Larger
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" 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. "
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Working
Me
" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
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" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "
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Audience
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" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "
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" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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