America Quote by Eric McCormack

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…

— Eric McCormack

I think it shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of course there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay…

— Jonathan Bailey

I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's…

— Debra Messing

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

— Eric McCormack

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

— Gus Van Sant

The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors…

— Stephanie Beatriz

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now…

— Megan Mullally

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

— Sean Hayes

There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.'…

— Peter Paige

Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

— Richard Chamberlain

In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the…

— Leslie Jordan

I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.

— Kyle Gass