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.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Michael J. Fox

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael J. Fox

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.

Michael J. Fox

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.

Michael J. Fox

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.

Michael J. Fox

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Michael J. Fox

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

Michael J. Fox

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.

Michael J. Fox

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Michael J. Fox

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with...

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

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.

Michael J. Fox

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

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

Michael J. Fox

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