Quotes By Michael J. Fox

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.

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'.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

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.

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.

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'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

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.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.