Quotes By Michael J. Fox

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

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

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.

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 it.

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

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

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

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

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 this life.

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

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

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 have a remarkably normal life.

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

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

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

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight.

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'.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?