Latest Eric McCormack Quotes from Interviews

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• I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Long Ago, Circles

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• There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would be the first to notice if a defendant did a certain thing that perhaps he was suffering from this. And so we got to do some really outspoken stuff for what was otherwise a crime-solving show. And it was just a really good team.

  Eric McCormack

  Team, Perception, Suffering

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• Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a TNT show, because there were crimes that got solved, which [going] back five years ago, was a mandate. But there was something innovative about the mental illness side of it.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Perception, Sides

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• Every actor has periods of their life that are a little less busy than others, and that was just a time when I needed that. And to be back on a sitcom stage, with Julia [ Louis-Dreyfus], was really, really fun.

  Eric McCormack

  Fun, Actors, Littles

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• Andy Ackerman directed the episodes that I was doing, and he directed a lot of Seinfeld [episodes]. And that was great.

  Eric McCormack

  Episodes

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• Seinfeld [show] had been so huge for me. It was one of those things where I discovered Seinfeld really early and was making sure everyone I knew was watching it. I would tape it on VHS and show it to people that hadn't seen the show yet.

  Eric McCormack

  People, Tape, Shows

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• I had run into Kari Lizer at an airport, I think, and she said, "Would you come on the show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I said, "God. Absolutely."

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  Running, Adventure, Thinking

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• [Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was their audience. I never really understood why we didn't get a longer run at it, because it was Griffin Dunne and Monica Potter. Just a really strong cast.

  Eric McCormack

  Running, Strong, Supportive

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• Whenever I see Tom [ Cavanagh] - we're good friends - we just mourn that we didn't get a longer shot.

  Eric McCormack

  Good Friend, Shots, Mourn

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• I was playing this sort of asshole actor [in The Jenny McCarthy Show]. And we shot the pilot, and it was a guaranteed go. It was going to be 24 [episodes] on the air. No questions from NBC. And we shot the pilot, and I was in Toronto doing a movie, and I got a call saying they cut the character, that I was off the show.

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  Character, Cutting, Nbc

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• In the '97 pilot season [of Will & Grace ], I got the male lead on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

  Eric McCormack

  Grace, Males, Pilots

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• [Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.

  Eric McCormack

  Girl, Years, Lauren

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• The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

  Eric McCormack

  Writing, People, Three

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• [Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

  Eric McCormack

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big pressure if the writing is not hilarious.

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  Jobs, Writing, Laughing

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• I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

  Eric McCormack

  Couple, Laughing, Decent

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• I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95, '96, I was so into Friends and Mad About You, the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. It was not so much a relief. It was really exciting. It's an amazing thing to be in front of an audience.

  Eric McCormack

  Cheer, Real, Ideas

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• As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

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  Actors, Als, Dramatic

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• They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

  Eric McCormack

  Mean, Lonesome Dove, Different

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• I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.

  Eric McCormack

  Stars, Play, Laughing

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• I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

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  Pride, Joy, Done

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• When we started the show [Lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - who had done the original miniseries and still owned the property and was turning it into this series - she brought in a lot of old friends - Diahann Carroll and Billy Dee Williams and Dennis Weaver. And we had an interesting collection off the top of these old seasoned actors. Billy Dee was lovely and iconic.

  Eric McCormack

  Interesting, Old Friends, Lonesome Dove

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• That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.

  Eric McCormack

  Real, War, Southern

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• Back then, all the networks were still making a movie a week, virtually. So I did five of them that year. So it was just a nonstop... '92 was a great, nonstop ride in Vancouver.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Vancouver, Week

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• I did The Commish and an episode of Neon Rider, and then I got the series called Street Justice, which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

  Eric McCormack

  Justice, Neon, Episodes

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