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" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
Eric McCormack
Gone
House
I Can
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" The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters. "
Eric McCormack
Bed
Canada
Think
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
See
Crazy
Eye
" 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
" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "
Eric McCormack
Many
Gay
TV
" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
Eric McCormack
Ruth
Body
Head
" 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
" My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. "
Eric McCormack
Manager
Romantic
Most
" 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
" The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote. "
Eric McCormack
Important
Just
Go
" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "
Eric McCormack
Lawyer
Forensics
Want
" 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 could probably eat sushi every day. "
Eric McCormack
Sushi
Every
Eat
" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "
Eric McCormack
Side
Start
Other
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
More
My Life
Always
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Years
Working
Me
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Day
Got
She
" 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 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
Me
Training
Amazing
" 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
" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "
Eric McCormack
Done
AIDS
Lot
" Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky. "
Eric McCormack
Gay
Character
Play
" 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 do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "
Eric McCormack
Stage
Love
Incredibly
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Live
Voice
Saying
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
Think
Audience
Love