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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
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John C. McGinley
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 3
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John Christopher McGinley
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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.
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I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'
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I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.
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I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
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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!
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My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.
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I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
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I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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