Eric McCormack Quotes

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

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Change, Gay

• There wasn’t an episode of ‘Will & Grace’ that didn’t begin with my voice saying, ‘Will & Grace’ is taped before a live studio audience.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Saying, Before

• 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.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Day, Crazy

• Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Change

• I was raised on ‘Get Smart’ and ‘All in the Family’ and ‘M.A.S.H.,’ and certainly when ‘Cheers’ came along, that was a big one.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Smart, Big

• I think we all realize that anyone can – and has – gotten AIDS. So there’s obviously still a lot to be done.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Still, Anyone

• I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with ‘Will & Grace.’ I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Day, Character

• I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase ‘TV actor.’ It’s like saying you’re a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Saying, Little, Ever

• Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Good, Dad

• Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, ‘Sweeney Todd’ was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Life

  Tags in School, Back

• 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.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in America

  Tags in Screaming, Queen

• When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read, Script

• That’s an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you’re not thinking about anything, you’re not thinking about your lines or what you’re supposed to do – your body, your brain knows, so there’s freedom. There’s not fear, there’s not nerves.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing, Feeling, Freedom

• My wife is a real camper; it’s a nice way to bond.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife

• My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Manager

• If you’re doing an hour-long show, you’re working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It’s the cushiest job in Hollywood.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Hollywood

• 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.

  Eric McCormack

• 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.

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Show

• I think there’s a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You’re partly British and partly American; you have a good bird’s-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation – it’s less ‘look at me’ than it is ‘look at me playing other people.’

  Eric McCormack

• I think I was very lucky that I didn’t get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

  Eric McCormack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Better, Human Being

Eric McCormack (27)

Birth:	18th April, 1963
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor

About

Eric James McCormack was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian actor. He made his feature film debut in the 1992 science-fiction adventure film The Lost World. He appeared in several television series, including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal. He later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in the American sitcom Will & Grace, his performance earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001. Also in 2009, he was cast in the science-fiction movie Alien Trespass. In addition, he starred as Dr. Daniel Pierce for three seasons of the TNT crime drama Perception.

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