Megan

"She's one hot babe."

"When Megan told us on the set she was 40, everyone was shocked. I thought she was my age."

"She's just a wonderful person."

"Megan was actually in several of the shows we did at the Pheasant Run. Now if that isn't a small, small world I don't know what is."

His relationship with Megan

"We learned about each other very quickly. It's just like when you make a friend - from the moment we met, we made each other laugh."

"From the moment we met at our first table reading, we just kinda started this crazy relationship. We feed off each other tremendously. We love each other so much."

Larry King: "Sean, how do you explain your relationship with Megan on the show?"
Sean: "Personally? Or the characters?"
Larry King: "The characters."
Sean (joking): "Because I'd rather not talk about it personally."

Sean: "When we first met, we just kind of clicked on a personal level, which I'm sure helped the characters. And we just kind of have the same wild, crazy sense of humor. We all do."
Larry King: "The two of you, it really works."
Sean: "Yes."

"Jack"

"I think Jack is Karen's closest friend. It's an odd friendship, almost sexual in nature. We've done everything on the air but have intercourse."

On auditioning for "Jack": "When I was walking out of the audition, I turned around and said, 'Hey Max, don't be checking out my ass.' And they said, 'Okay, that's Jack McFarland."

On taking another gay role: "I was leery of taking the part, I thought it was too much like Billy. And I thought there might be some kind of backlash if I'm suddenly playing this really out-there gay guy on TV right after the movie came out."

"Entertainment Weekly said I was a cross between Paul Lynde and Daffy Duck."

"Jack is a highly neurotic, extremely outspoken, a little bitter, maybe even borderline obsessive-compulsive. However, underneath all that, he is a caring soul and a good friend to Will."

"Although he gets somewhat the stereotypical lines to say, and the gestures, Jack is really, to me, eccentric more than gay."

Stone Phillips: "What's the best thing about being Jack?"
Sean: "Pretty much almost anything goes."

"I don't have the energy to be as hyperactive as Jack. By the end of a show I am exhausted and go home watch TV and crash."

"He's wacky, pretentious and bitter. And when things are bad, he's there to make them worse."

"It's difficult. It's hard to think of a new way to enter a room in a funny way. It's harder to tap into Jack as time goes on. Megan and I talk about it all the time. When we start the first episode of a new season, it takes awhile to jump back into the character."

"I would like to see Jack smarten up a bit. His naivete is who he is, but for the life of the show, he needs to grab on to something solid."

Larry King: "Do you like Jack?"
Sean: "Yes. I couldn't probably spend time with him over -- yes, probably couldn't spend a long time with him, but yes, he's..."
Larry King: "You couldn't?"
Sean: "No."
Larry King: "Pal around with him, but you like him for the series?"
Sean: "Yes. He'd drive me crazy. Doesn't he drive you crazy?"

The cast

"I actually like working with the other three actors on the show. It's always fun to have people come on and platy with us and 99 per cent of the time they're fantastic, easy to work with and fun. But I miss just the four of us together - a lot."

Sean's favourite thing about each cast member: "Megan's breasts, Debra's lips, and Eric's smile and sense of humor."

"We're lucky if we even talk to each other. We constantly throw food...It's wonderful. I know you hear this all the time, but we really do get along."

On Eric's singing: "People either run or stay. But most people support him in his love for karaoke."

On Eric and his character: "And oddly enough, he's like the straight man. He's the unsung hero. He's funny. I'm the one who breaks up with the most, usually becayse of something Eric does. As a colleague, he's just so, so nice and so grounded."

"I think we're very, very, very lucky. You have all these personalities come in and you never really know how it's going to work. Thank God we all have the same sense of humour."

On the cast's tabloid-rumoured fueds: "Reporters can't just write great things all the time, because how boring is that?"

The show

"Ground-breaking? You know, a friend of mine once said, you know, he believed that our show was doing for gay people what The Jeffersons and Good Times did for the African-American community way back then. And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and -- where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were. And I think that -- that's probably why it works."

On the show being renamed Jack & Karen: "Wouldn't that be fun? No, I don't think it matters what the title is anymore. Everybody just watches for the comedy."

On moving to 8:30: "I don't feel any pressure. I think a lot of the pressure is on Joey. But I think because of our consistent quality, we have nothing to worry about, if I do say so myself."

Misc.

On winning the Emmy: "It is pretty overwhelming. I can't believe I am standing in front of you. This is the part I see on TV every year and now I am standing here...how strange is that? It is very much like an out-of-body experience."

Larry King: "Sean, what were you doing before this role?"
Sean: "What was I doing? I was trying to get this role."

On sudden fame: "I was gambling in Vegas, and twice people came up and said, 'Love you on Darma & Greg'."

"James Burrows calls me B-Story or Subplot, like, 'Hey, Subplot, keep it down.'"

"I'm obsessed with Mozart. I was a piano performance major in college. I played for 20 years. My whole life was about music."

"When you see somebody driving around the city in their fancy car with the top down, it's like they're beggin for attention. That's just gross to me."

"I've gone in to read for movies where the producer and director have never heard of Will & Grace."

On when he won the Emmy: "I was a basket case when they called my name. I thought I was going to bawl my eyes out on stage but thankfully I held it together until I got off the stage."

On his school days: "I was the kid who made people laugh in class and between classes but they didn't associate with me outside of school. I spent my nights and weekends watching television and practising piano."

Larry King: "Sean, why do you think this show plays well in a country that still has trouble accepting the concept?"
Sean: "That's a very good question. Eric?"

"I'll go to my grave working at surprising myself, trying to surprise other people."

On his Cats & Dogs character, Mr. Tinkles: "I think he always wanted to be in theater and do film. He couldn't, so he decided to take over the world."

On his fans causing a minor stampede when he was at a Liza Minelli show: "Liza was sooo mad."

"I would be a water beetle, because it sounds funny." (Submitted by Holly)

An embarassing moment: "I got on the wrong bus going home on the first day of junior high school. I was too embarassed to tell the driver my mistake and he wasn't driving anywhere near where I lived. So I had to wait until he could take me back to the school, and then I called my mom. I think I may have made a puddle on that bus." (Submitted by Holly)

"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of my favourite movies so maybe I'd like to live in that. Except Gene Wilder just freaked me out in that scene when he was going crazy."

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