It's very strange - several years ago, I was in the running for the 'Young Frankenstein' musical. Kristin Chenoweth was going to do it, but then she backed out because she got 'Pushing Daisies' on TV, and then, the next day, I went in for my final-final audition, and I saw Megan Mullally standing there.

Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.

I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.

Tom Cavanagh is fantastic.

If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.

Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even.

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does.

We're definitely hoping 'Travelers' attracts more than just solely the sci-fi audience, too. There are so many elements here. I think this will be a show that women like, because there's a lot of unlikely romance in it between people who were in love 300 years from now, but they're in different bodies.

Not a big sci-fi guy.

I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.

Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.

We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye.

I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.

I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.

I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.'

The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.

I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman.

That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.'

That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.