As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly importan….

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 lik….

It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made….

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years befor….

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft,….

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling ….

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

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think peop….

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part..

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 ….

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of b….

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

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of s….

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny..

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasion….

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience..

Every actor has periods of their life that are a little less busy than others, and that was just a time when I needed that. And to be back on a sitco….

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, Su….

I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I'm trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill with water, and I start to drown, and the director h….

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

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done..