Eric McCormack Quotes

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

“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”

“Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.”

“I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.”

“Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.”

“When I write, I can be hear. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.”

“It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial.”

“I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.”

“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”

“Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.”