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" With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands. "
Eric McCormack
Because
Words
Me
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" I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. "
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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. "
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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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" I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
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" 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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Home
Sleep
Sit
" 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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" As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. "
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Parent
Image
Power
" 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'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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Stretched
Still
Kid
" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
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You
Long
" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "
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Wife
Nice
Camper
" 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. "
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Hope
Support
End
" 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 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. "
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Talk
Fun
Funny
" 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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Gay
People
Need
" 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. "
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Always
Me
Bedroom
" 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
She
" 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. "
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Father
Good
Growing Up
" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
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Ruth
Body
Head
" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "
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Stage
Love
Incredibly
" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
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Fantastic
Tom
" 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 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. "
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Street
Doing
Rider
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
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House
I Can
" The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote. "
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Just
Go
" 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. "
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Brain
Amazing
You
" 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. "
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You
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Friends
" 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. "
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Place
" 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. "
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