Eric McCormack Quotes

As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.

I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

In the theater, you get very close with everyone, and you have to because you're with each other all the time. I respect it. It's a challenge, but it's very worth the hard work.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

I love working with great actors.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doing school plays, I loved it so much I didn't want it to end. I feel like I'm exactly the same as when I was doing plays at school, to be honest.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

Continuity is important in sports.

The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.