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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

Father, Challenges, Been, Infantile

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

- John C. McGinley

Artist, Been, All Americans, Human Condition

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

Perfect, Had, Hall, Sonic

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

Studio, Cut, About, Wizard Of Oz

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!

- John C. McGinley

Love, Memory, Given, Photographic

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

NAACP, African Americans, Chose

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

Alive, Over, Gonna, Eaten

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

Mountains, Big, Through, Weed

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

Go, Say, Movie, Holes

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.'

- John C. McGinley

Hot, Like, Max, Nicole

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

- John C. McGinley

Play, Part, Very, Financing

I've always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly underrated actor. He's a great director, obviously. A great director/writer. But I think he's a stunning actor, too.

- John C. McGinley

Think, Always, I Think, Great Director

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

- John C. McGinley

Down, Why, Genetic, Syndrome

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

Years, Got, New Season, Gravy

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

- John C. McGinley

Been, Means, Issue, Category

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

- John C. McGinley

Back, Tickets, Hard Job, Runner

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

Feel, Some, Catalog, Hey

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

- John C. McGinley

Equity, Audition, Got, Card

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

Parent, Doing, Next, Norman

You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.

- John C. McGinley

Green, Go, Tell, Frame

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

Got, Billy, Type, Lawrence

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

- John C. McGinley

Red, Wanted, Allen, Personalities

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

Play, Always, Which, Cox

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

- John C. McGinley

Him, Two, I See, Cox

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

Been, Engaged, Which, Bored

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

- John C. McGinley

Like, Going, Damages, Tooth

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

Part, Named, Clinics, Boys And Girls

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

Living, Dirty, TV, Tends

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

Color, Other, Cut, Post-Production

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

- John C. McGinley

Learn, Want, Your, Lines

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