Quotes By Michael J. Fox

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

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.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

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

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

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

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

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.

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.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

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

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

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

What other people think about me is not my business.

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

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

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

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 don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.