Ken Jenkins

Ken Jenkins: (about working with Bill Lawrence) Bill is so good at preparing things for the last second, it's no use preparing for a character because at the last second, it's going to change beautifully.

Ken Jenkins: (on working with the crew of Scrubs) To have the opportunity to play with the same team for a number of years so you really know each other's timing, each other's move, it's a fantastic gift.

Ken Jenkins: (on why he does not watch American Idol) I don't like watching contests because I don't like watching people lose. It makes me squirm.

Ken Jenkins: (on why Scrubs should end properly) If you read a great, huge novel and you read it through and then you rip out the last two chapters and don't read them, it leaves you sort of vertiginous. Wait a minute, you're at the top of the Ferris wheel swinging forever, wait a minute, let's get the story resolved.

Ken Jenkins: (about life after Scrubs) Who will I become next, what sort of thing will I develop next? You just never know. That's the wonderful part of this game.

Ken Jenkis: (on the drama and comedy aspect of Scrubs) We call it "plotville on speed".

Ken Jenkins: (about his character's fate on Scrubs} He'll probably show up back in the coffee shop, eating muffins and giving everybody a hard time.

Ken Jenkins: (about Scrubs ending abruptly) It's very discomfiting to tell a story, and to be telling a story for seven years, and then not be able to do the ending to it. It's like the longest joke in the world with no punch line.

Ken Jenkins: (about the effect of the WGA strike) What it's done to us on a creative thing is leave us in a very strange circus ride. It's like you've been shot up in the air and you haven't come down. It's a very lost kind of feeling.

Ken Jenkins: As a teenager, I discovered a love for acting and theater arts that defined me for the rest of my life.

Ken Jenkins: Although most people think my character is too rough on the interns, I've been told by some people in the medical field that their 'Dr. Bob' was much tougher. I think the staff just don't realize how hard Kelso's job is.

Ken Jenkins: I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

Ken Jenkins: I was fortunate to discover the world through the words of Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and to discover in myself a love for the theater that has shaped my life.