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John C. McGinley

"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."

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"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."

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"Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it."

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"For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter."

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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

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"Don't be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth."

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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."

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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."

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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."

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"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."

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"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."

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John C. McGinley
"As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold."

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John C. McGinley
"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."

Doctors

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John C. McGinley
"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!"

Love

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John C. McGinley
"You 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."

God

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John C. McGinley
"My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'"

Son

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John C. McGinley
"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."

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John C. McGinley
"I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, "I really want to play this guy!""

Son

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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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"I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption."

Love

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