Quotes By Michael J. Fox

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.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

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.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

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

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

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

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

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.

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.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

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

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.