Eric McCormack Quotes

I can be the best James Bond there is.

I prefer being the protagonist.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'

I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.

I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.

I think you have to kind of feel like you're pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that's just not how I look.

Lewandowski is past, I am the future.

I'm not going out there screaming, 'I'm CEO! I'm CEO!' That's not the way to do it.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

It feels great to be given a protagonist role.

I've realized who I am and what I can do and I just want a chance to go out there and show everyone who the man is. I'm the man.

Every great player has a big character. I don't know any player with a lot of quality who just has quality - you have to have an ego and character to be the main person on the pitch.

A lot of guys just can't handle the spotlight and the pressure, so they shy away from it, like 'oh, I don't want to be in it.' That's never me.

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.