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" Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself. "
Eric McCormack
Myself
Epitaph
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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. "
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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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" Not a big sci-fi guy. "
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" I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade. "
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" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
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" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "
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" 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. "
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" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
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" 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. "
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" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "
Eric McCormack
Tests
Walk
Life
" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "
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Show
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Me
Training
Amazing
" 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
Support
End
" 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
Me
Loved
Love
" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
Eric McCormack
First
Manager
First Job
" 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. "
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You
Life
Feel
" In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter. "
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Future
Age
Become
" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "
Eric McCormack
Dying
Good Wife
Mad
" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
Eric McCormack
Earl
Christopher
Saw
" 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
Thought
Theatre
Dream
" I have to challenge the audience. "
Eric McCormack
Audience
Challenge
" This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives? "
Eric McCormack
Historical
Will
Future
" The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote. "
Eric McCormack
Important
Just
Go
" 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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Day
Got
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" Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline. "
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You
Day
Funny
" 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. "
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Doubt
Angry
You
" 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. "
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Years
Working
Me
" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "
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Done
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Lot
" 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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