64 Quotes by John C. McGinley

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

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.

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

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

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.

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