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" We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. "
Eric McCormack
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" I did a film a couple years ago called 'Who Is Clark Rockefeller?' It was a role that I was really proud of that I wish more people could go back and rediscover. "
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" I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while. "
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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. "
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" I always kind of dreamed locally - I never really ever dream that I would be south of the border; I dreamed about being a theatre star in Toronto, and maybe I'd do Stratford and regional stuff. I always thought it would be a slow growth. "
Eric McCormack
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Dream
" I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments. "
Eric McCormack
Hope
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End
" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "
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Other
" 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
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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. "
Eric McCormack
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Amazing
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
Eric McCormack
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House
I Can
" 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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Me
People
Fun
" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "
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Myself
Epitaph
Challenge
" I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of. "
Eric McCormack
Street
Doing
Rider
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
People
History
Know
" 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
" 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'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
Eric McCormack
Stretched
Still
Kid
" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "
Eric McCormack
First Grade
Knew
Wanted
" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
Eric McCormack
Fantastic
Tom
" 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
Me
Fact
Place
" I have to challenge the audience. "
Eric McCormack
Audience
Challenge
" 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
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Eye
" You can write your own history. "
Eric McCormack
You
History
Own
" 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. "
Eric McCormack
You
Family
Friends
" 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
" 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.' "
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View
Me
People
" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "
Eric McCormack
Wife
Nice
Camper
" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
Eric McCormack
Sense
Between
Any
" If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'. "
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Todd
Aerosmith
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" It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine. "
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People
Group
Small
" 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. "
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