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" 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. "

Eric McCormack

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" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "

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

" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "

" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "

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

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

" Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. "

" 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. "

" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "

" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "

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

Eric McCormack

Todd

Aerosmith

" 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. "

" I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me. "

Eric McCormack

Always

Bedroom

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

" 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. "

" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "

" 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. "

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

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Many

Gay

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

" Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure. "

" 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. "

" Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline. "

" 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

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