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" 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. "

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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. "

Eric McCormack

Never

Doing

Father

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" You're damned in success a little bit. "

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

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

Eric McCormack

Many

Gay

" 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.' "

" 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 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

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

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

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

Eric McCormack

Todd

Aerosmith

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have to challenge the audience. "

Eric McCormack

Audience

Challenge

" I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one. "

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

" It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore. "

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

" There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience. "

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