I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. – Eric McCormack
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and its always in the form of someone homeless. Look at that guy – hes crazy. He looks dangerous. Well, hes on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. – Eric McCormack
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, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play – you know, very typical dad reaction. – Eric McCormack
Thats an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and youre not thinking about anything, youre not thinking about your lines or what youre supposed to do – your body, your brain knows, so theres freedom. Theres not fear, theres not nerves. – Eric McCormack
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom