As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
'Perception' was a different show than 'Will & Grace'. 'Will & Grace' was obviously a different show than anything I'd done before. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Seinfeld [show] had been so huge for me. It was one of those things where I discovered Seinfeld really early and was… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
[Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
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,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Brad Wright, who created Grant MacLaren, had me in mind. We'd actually worked together 20 years ago. He wrote an episode of… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
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… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny. — Eric McCormack Copy Share
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. — Eric McCormack Copy Share
It's very strange - several years ago, I was in the running for the 'Young Frankenstein' musical. Kristin Chenoweth was going to do it,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
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… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
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… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
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;… — Eric McCormack Copy Share
Certainly 'Lonesome Dove' would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. I didn't have kids. — Eric McCormack Copy Share
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![“I'd never been to Africa. This really was my first film [The Lost World]. I'd done 10 years of stage. I'd done a little bit of television. But this was my first film.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e82/eric-mccormack-2915_africa_i-d-never-been-to-africa-this-really-was_204018.jpg)
![“I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/938/eric-mccormack-2915_bigs_i-have-a-big-long-episode-in-full-circle_1294521.jpg)
![“I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a guaranteed go. It was going to be 24 [episodes] on the air. No questions from NBC. And we shot the pilot, and I was in Toronto doing a movie, and I got a call saying they cut the character…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f4d/eric-mccormack-2915_actors_i-was-playing-this-sort-of-asshole-actor_1568863.jpg)
![“Seinfeld [show] had been so huge for me. It was one of those things where I discovered Seinfeld really early and was making sure everyone I knew was watching it. I would tape it on VHS and show it to people that hadn't seen the show yet.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dc3/eric-mccormack-2915_huge_seinfeld-show-had-been-so-huge-for-me-it_2870531.jpg)
![“[Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was their audience. I never really understood why we didn't get a longer run at it, because it was Griffin Dunne and Monica Potter. Just a really strong cast.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d0/eric-mccormack-2915_audience_trust-me-was-tnt-and-they-were-really-su_2497020.jpg)
![“I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/089/eric-mccormack-2915_ability_i-think-because-the-show-grant-maclaren_53728.jpg)
![“There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would be the first to notice if a defendant did a certain thing that perhaps he was suffering from this. And so we got to do some really outspoken stuff for what was otherwise a…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87a/eric-mccormack-2915_certain_there-was-not-an-episode-on-perception-t_2594900.jpg)
