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,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction. ”

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through. ”

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own. ”

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

Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. ”

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

My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. ”

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. ”

My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father's years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it. ”

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact. ”