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
It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.
Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.
Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.
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.
You're damned in success a little bit.
I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.
I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.
I could probably eat sushi every day.
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.
We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.
I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.
Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.
When you become a father, everything changes.
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.
Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.
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.
I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.
I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy.
You can write your own history.
Because I had three years on 'Perception,' I think I succeeded in showing I can do other things, and I can create a different audience, even from people who loved 'Will & Grace.'
I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with.
It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.
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.
I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade.
My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.
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.
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.
Tom Cavanagh is fantastic.
When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.
I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even.
Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.
In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.
Not a big sci-fi guy.
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.
I have to challenge the audience.
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.
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.
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.'
Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.
If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.
I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'
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.
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.
Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.
If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.
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.
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?
The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters.
On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.
