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" 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
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" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
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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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" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "
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Great
" I could probably eat sushi every day. "
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Sushi
Every
Eat
" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "
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Lawyer
Forensics
Want
" 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. "
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Gay
People
Need
" 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
" 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
" Shelter dogs should be adopted into loving homes, not used in cruel experiments. That's why I support the Cruelty Free International global dog campaign. "
Eric McCormack
Dog
Why
Support
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Brain
Amazing
You
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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Stretched
Still
Kid
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Because
Words
Me
" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "
Eric McCormack
Opportunities
Show
Off
" Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. "
Eric McCormack
Back
Because
Mean
" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
Eric McCormack
Creative
You
Long
" I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. "
Eric McCormack
Play
Quiet
Man
" Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction. "
Eric McCormack
Father
Good
Growing Up
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
Eric McCormack
Gone
House
I Can
" Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. "
Eric McCormack
Spring
Big
Avenue
" I know where TNT's sweet spot is, and when I read 'Perception,' I thought, 'This is a chance to play a fascinating, fun, challenging character but still within the realm of something that will sit very well with 'The Closer' and 'Major Crimes' and the other shows there.' "
Eric McCormack
Chance
Fun
Character
" 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. "
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Woman
Black
Business
" 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.' "
Eric McCormack
Think
Perception
Grace
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Big
Along
Cheers
" 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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Me
Training
Amazing
" 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. "
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People
History
Know
" 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. "
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Me
Fact
Place
" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "
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Us
Larger
Puzzle
" I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!' "
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Who
Find
Knew
" 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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