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" 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. "

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" If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood. "

Eric McCormack

Work

Week

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I'm not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the 'Sopranos.' "

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

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

" 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

My Life

Always

" I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older. "

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

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

" I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life. "

Eric McCormack

Loved

Love

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

" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "

" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER. "

" 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. "