Eric McCormack
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.Collection: Parenting
My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.Collection: Romantic
I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.Collection: Cool
When you become a father, everything changes.
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.
When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.
Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.
If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.
Tom Cavanagh is fantastic.
I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.
Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.
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.
We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.
I could probably eat sushi every day.
I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade.
I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.
If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.
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'm still a kid. I stretched it out.
It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.
You're damned in success a little bit.
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.'
I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with.
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.
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.
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.'
Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.
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.
You can write your own history.
Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.
I have to challenge the audience.
I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy.
It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.
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 saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.
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.
Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
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.
I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'
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 be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
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 more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.