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" You're damned in success a little bit. "
Eric McCormack
Bit
You
Success
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" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "
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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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" I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
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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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" When you become a father, everything changes. "
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" I have to challenge the audience. "
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" 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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Support
" 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
" I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy. "
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Bride
Working
Great
" 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
AIDS
Lot
" 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 saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones. "
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Earl
Christopher
Saw
" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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Stretched
Still
Kid
" 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. "
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See
Crazy
Eye
" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "
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Ruth
Body
Head
" 'Monk''s gone, and 'House' is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off. "
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Gone
House
I Can
" I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!' "
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Find
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" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "
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Larger
Puzzle
" Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. "
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Mean
" 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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People
Crazy
Day
" I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. "
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Stuff
Playing
" 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. "
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Love
" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "
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Life
" I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will). "
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