Eric McCormack

“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.”

“Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.”

“Monk's gone, and House is gone. Maybe I can pick up where they left off.”

“Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.”

“That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.”

“You're damned in success a little bit.”

“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.”

“In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.”

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

“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.”

“I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.”

“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.”

“I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with.”

“I could probably eat sushi every day.”

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

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