John C. McGinley Quotes
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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We know the history of Hussein, and we know he is a bad actor, ... We know he's had weapons of mass destruction and used them against Iranians and used them against the Kurds in his own country, and he would use them against anybody else, too.
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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
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I think women can save civilization.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.
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As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
