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John C. McGinley
American
Actor
Born:
Aug 3
,
1959
Actor
Because
Great
Me
Son
You
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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!'
John C. McGinley
Great
Son
Down
Month
Montreal
Toronto
Gigs
Vancouver
Stay
Guy
Along
Town
Like
Around
Felt
Came
Mexico
Up
Five
Role
Max
Going
Stop
Want
Wanted
Really
Play
Four
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.
John C. McGinley
You
Mistake
Bit
Bad
Rip
Something
Knew
Soon
Because
Always
Huge
Up
Cox
Maybe
Want
Wanted
Which
Little
Little Bit
Really
Play
Dr
As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
John C. McGinley
Great
Heart
Strong
Leader
Gold
Actor
Play
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.
John C. McGinley
Old
Uncle
Living
TV
More
Dirty
Tends
Like
Look
Dial
Barbie
Ken
What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone and adrenaline by a woman. That's why it's little more interesting than it should be.
John C. McGinley
Me
Woman
About
More
Point
Adrenaline
Study
Testosterone
Than
Break
Interesting
Little
Should
Why
I have mixed feelings about 'Car 54, Where Are You?' Because we shot it as a musical and whoever the studio head was at Orion, or whoever the powers that be were, cut all but, like, two musical numbers out of it. That is the same as cutting the musical numbers out of 'The Wizard Of Oz'; it wouldn't be that interesting.
John C. McGinley
You
Car
Feelings
Musical
Out
About
Studio
Head
Like
Powers
Because
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Were
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Same
Where
Oz
Interesting
Cut
Cutting
Shot
Whoever
Two
Numbers
I got the pilot for 'Scrubs' sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said 'a John McGinley type.' So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who's a dear friend of mine, I said, 'Well, I'm John McGinley.'
John C. McGinley
Me
Pilot
Type
Mine
John
Lawrence
Well
Said
Got
Dear
Audition
Dear Friend
Friend
Cox
Sent
Scrub
Billy
Dr
Margin
I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
John C. McGinley
Family
Being
Working
Homebody
Dad
If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
John C. McGinley
Me
You
Alien
Say
Insane
Drives
Because
Go
Movie
Story
Holes
Then
Lands
Watch
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!
John C. McGinley
Journey
Challenges
Son
Grace
Complicated
Father
Daughter
Down
Syndrome
Has-Been
Born
Name
Am
Been
His
Years
Years Ago
Infantile
Max
Dietary
Puberty
Twelve
Now
Sleep
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.
John C. McGinley
Dignity
Women
Language
Will
Disrespect
Jews
Those
Respond
Constituents
Directed
Steep
Price
NAACP
League
Like
Verbally
American
African
African Americans
Paid
Who
Groups
Chose
Now
Homosexuals
I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'
John C. McGinley
Good
Great
Me
Celebrate
Feel Good
Remember
Will
Everyone
Once
Hey
Some
Silly
Totally
Silly Thing
Case
Someone
Guy
Blah
Catalog
Feel
Like
Well
Knows
Because
Yeah
Go
Michael
Get
Did
Goes
Oh
Oh Yeah
Want
While
Then
Your
Who
Whole
Thing
I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.
John C. McGinley
You
Liberate
Blessed
Imagination
Bored
Generous
Because
Stimulated
Been
Lot
Afford
Get
Just
Which
Engaged
Your
Actor
A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.
John C. McGinley
Man
Incredibly
Out
Kinda
Emmy
Picked
New
Nominated
Well
Got
Issue
Years
Lot
Up
Sells
New Season
Six
Whenever
Scrub
Ridiculous
Season
Things
Gravy
Number
I did an episode of 'Frasier' with my friend Kelsey Grammer once.
John C. McGinley
Once
My Friend
Friend
Did
Episode
The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.
John C. McGinley
Great
You
Learning
Listening
Roof
Will
Master
Setup
Tell
About
Through
Wrong
Great Thing
Because
Learning Curve
Line
Singles
Person
Get
Just
Soap
Curve
Soaps
Cut
Then
Your
Actor
Thing
Two
You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.
John C. McGinley
Me
You
Editing
Result
Films
Other
Back
Bit
Post-Production
Color
Like
Know
Mixing
Crap
Grind
Mean
Cut
Really
Producing
Film
Number
I'm the wrong person to not be professional around. When someone calls 'action' and we're in the frame together, I'm gonna run you over. You're gonna get eaten alive.
John C. McGinley
You
Together
Action
Frame
Alive
Run
Eaten
Someone
Wrong
Over
Calls
Around
Person
Get
Gonna
Professional
I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.
John C. McGinley
Proud
End
Very
Done
Platoon
My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.
John C. McGinley
Day
Son
Born
Princess
Max
Died
When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.
John C. McGinley
Relationship
Thoughts
You
Focus
Year
Enroll
Worry
Sign
About
Parent
Week
He
Put
Him
Becoming
How
Doing
Norman
Times
Norman Rockwell
Child
Going
Stops
Which
Aside
Breathing
Next
Your
Your Child
Next Year
Even
Now
Preschool
Right
Night
I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection.
John C. McGinley
Music
Me
Interpretation
Enormous
Settled
Astonishing
Way
Say
Alison
Station
Kind
Would
See
Perfect
Layman
Had
Perfection
Sonic
Most
Hall
Experiences
Room
Disney
Union
Receiving
I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike.
John C. McGinley
Property
Girl
Build
Spring
Field
Our
Strike
Writers
Pick
Part
Over
Named
Come
Because
Boy
Always
Got
Built
Boys And Girls
Clinics
Lower
Working
Shovel
Baseball
Started
Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.
John C. McGinley
Beautiful
You
Weed
Big
Mountains
Side
Way
Broom
Through
Road
Between
Over
Along
Smells
Western
Yellow
Get
Spanish
Santa
Santa Monica
Brick
Monica
Flowering
Imagine
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