John C. McGinley Quotes

You go to the hospital your wife’s in labor and you’re doing the thing, and then it’s very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of ‘woe is me’ and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I’m more like Ken’s dirty old uncle.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I’m given on Scrubs… often on short notice!

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they’re auditioning, because their terror calms me.

 

I knew I wanted to play “Dr Cox” really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, “I really want to play this guy!”