With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.
John C. McGinleyI 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. McGinleyI 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. McGinleyI got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'
John C. McGinleyYou go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.
John C. McGinley