Quotes by Michael J. Fox

About Michael J. Fox:

Michael Andrew Fox is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and advocate. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty in Spin City (1996–2001), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control....

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

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I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of t...

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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

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

Michael J. Fox

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the...

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I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

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The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

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

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Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

Michael J. Fox

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Michael J. Fox

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

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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

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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.

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The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.

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

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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.

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

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

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The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

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Author Bio

  • NameMichael J. Fox
  • DescriptionCanadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over artist
  • BornJune 9, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Canada
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Canada; Saturn Award; Emmy Award; Golden Globe Award; People's Choice Award; Screen Actors Guild Award; Grammy Award