(On making a home) Eric Mabius: I like to get my hands dirty, start tearing into some drywall. I like to feel like I'm part of the house. I used to be afraid to even hang a picture. But I'm on my third house now.
(On his fashion sense) Eric: I've never gotten the concept of the tie. The less clothes the better. There's less to worry about.
(about his personal motto) Eric Mabius: If you spend all your life trying to act cool, you're cut off from everything that's going on around you
Eric Mabius: (on the film, The Crow: Salvation) One of the most enjoyable work experiences of my life. The film has immense potential. Audiences have flipped for it. And I would love to see it receive a wide release, but the powers that be might want to make an easy $10 million by going straight to video.
Eric Mabius: (on choosing roles) I choose my projects according to script content and talent involved. So I won't say no, categorically, but it all depends on those elements.
Eric Mabius: (on his career goals while growing up) To just simply be able to keep working. To do projects that fulfill me, and that's all I could ever ask for.
Eric Mabius: I'm not very comfortable with (watching my performances). When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still. A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists. So I see what I like to change about my performance, as opposed to the things that I tried and seemed to have landed well.
He doesn't show up at events which draw tabloid photographers.
His wife, Ivy Sherman is an interior designer.
Eric has a son named Maxfield Elliot, who was born in the summer of 2006.
Eric was one of People Magazine's "Sexiest Men alive", Nov 27, 2006 issue, as "Sexiest TV Editor-In-Chief"
One day, he hurled a lead pipe at a fellow actor
He played in the stage production "Cruel Intentions." He was playing a closeted gay football player manipulated by a pair of scheming step-siblings. His co-stars were
During a production, he was fitted with 14 squibs (small explosive charges used to simulate bullet hits on a body). "It was my first time being squibbed," he said enthusiastically, during an interview to The Gazette.
He appeared in Sassy Magazine in November 1996.
His last name is pronouced as "MAY-bee-us."
He attended and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts, USA.
He worked as a room service waiter at the Paramount Hotel in New York City while also doing Broadway plays.
He was an athlete in high school, training seriously in luge.
Eric loves mustard and puts in on everything.
In 1989, Mabius went to Sarah Lawrence College, near New York City, where he studied film, dance, and sculpture.
He likes to do carpentry and woodwork to unwind.
He auditioned for the movie " Scream 2 " (1997)
His nickname is "Da Mabes".