Eric McCormack Character Quotations

I think we may see a lot of the old characters come back." ()

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

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.

Every week we have 300 people who line up to see us live. Part of the kick of a sitcom is it is in front of an audience. It is just a small audience every week. This time the audience will be America. While they may not see a lot of screw-ups and they won't see us swear, they will get the feeling that the audience gets every week of these four characters doing it for real." ()

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.

The four of us wanted to make sure that the show went out properly, with a bang and not a whimper. If you stay around one year too long, that's obviously what happens. We just wanted to protect these characters and protect the legacy." ()

First of all, nobody wants to see sitcom characters have sex. I didn't even want to see the Sex and the City girls have sex. This is not why I watch a comedy." ()