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The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

I began to long for the benign indifference of Robert Redford flossing his molars.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

I have a remarkably normal life.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

Among other things, don't start with the beer.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

What other people think of me is not my business.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you've lived it twice.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

Happiness is a decision.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

Was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

Acceptance is the key to everything.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

Our challenges don't define us, our actions do,

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?