John C. McGinley Quotations

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

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.