John C. McGinley Quotes

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.

My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, ‘Max, you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.’

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!”