Michael J. Fox Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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.
I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
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.
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.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.
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.
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 see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
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.
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.
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.