Eric McCormack

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?

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.

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 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.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.

I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.

Tom Cavanagh is fantastic.

If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.

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

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

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.

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

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.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters.

On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.

We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies.

Not a big sci-fi guy.

I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'

Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.

We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye.

I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.

I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.

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

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.

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.

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

I loved working with Cary Elwes, who is in 'The Princess Bride', one of my favorite films. He's a great guy.

I have to challenge the audience.

You can write your own history.

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.

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.

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.'

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.

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'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; no Will Truman here.'

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.'

You're damned in success a little bit.

It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

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.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding.

I knew I wanted to be an actor in first grade.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

I could probably eat sushi every day.

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

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.