John C. McGinley Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.”

“The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.”

“With Shakespeare, if you're not going to do the iambic pentameter, do some other play.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”