Quotes from Eric McCormack

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.

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

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 a kid. I stretched it out.

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.

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.