Eric McCormack Quotes

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Someone can do three episodes of 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' then turn around and book a primetime show. That's happening all the time.

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

The first several years I was an actor, I sort of eked out a living playing thugs almost exclusively until 'Robocop.'

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

I want to do everything. I just want variety and longevity. I've never filmed a movie before, I want to do that. I want to come back to theater at some point. But I was in New York for like ten years, grinding. I'm ready to be in L.A. for a little while, and really experience film and television.

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

I was desperate to do more TV and film. Because I considered myself to be a theater creature. A theater animal. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life. Because it's something I can really do. I thought I was pretty good at it, and it's kind of stupid, but I was concerned that people would go, "Oh yeah, he's very good onstage, I'm not sure he can do television."

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.