Eric McCormack Quotes

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Eric McCormack

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 18, 1963

That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.'

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I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman.

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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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The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.

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I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.'

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I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.

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I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.

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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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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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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.

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I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'

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Not a big sci-fi guy.

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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?

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

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