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.

In 2007 he had a role as Chuck in the film Are We Done Yet?. He has also done commercials for the Champions Tour a professional golf tour for men over the age of 50. McGinley had been cast in his first film role in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty earlier in 1986.

Apart from acting McGinley is also an author and a spokesperson for the National Down Syndrome Society. He has also written and produced for television and film. John Christopher McGinley (born August 3 1959) is an American actor.