100+ Michael J. Fox Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

Topics: Kids, Thinking, Lists, Describe Me, Parkinson's

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.

Topics: Growing Up, Ambition, Hockey, Hockey Player

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.

Topics: Kids, Littles, Eccentric

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

Topics: Kids, Giving, Shining

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

source: - Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

Topics: Book, School, Kids

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.

Topics: Zoos, Animal, Needs, Wild Animal, Nature And Animals

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

source: - Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.253, Random House

Topics: Years, Lasts, Given

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

Topics: Crazy, Kids

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.

Topics: Teenager, Parent, Risk, Uncertain Future, Volvo

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

Topics: Kids, Show Me, Shows

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.

Topics: Cancer, Health, Science, Great Progress, Medical Science

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.

source: - "The Givers : Who Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

Topics: Dog, Exercise, Golf

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

source: - Michael J. Fox (2010). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned”, p.60, Hachette UK

Topics: Ambition, Thinking, Two, Being Equal

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

source: - Source: www.cbc.ca

Topics: Issues, Immigration, Canada

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Topics: School, Kids, Thinking, Junior High

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Topics: Humility, Trying, Sincere

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

source: - "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

Topics: Regret, Nice, Adventure, Missed Opportunity, Nice Feeling

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

Topics: Children, Wife, Birthright

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

source: - "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

Topics: Father, Kids, Ifs

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

source: - "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Ethical, Knows

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.

source: - "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2002.

Topics: Nice, Doctors, People, Parkinson's, Parkinson

If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.

source: - "Lucky Man: A Memoir". Book by Michael J. Fox, www.sfgate.com. 2002.

Topics: Taken, Years, Bills

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

Topics: Community, Leader, Looks

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

source: - Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.187, Random House

Topics: Drinking, Thinking, Able, Drinking Problem

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.

source: - "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

Topics: People, Vision, Want, Helping Each Other

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Topics: Funny, Movie, Pain, Pain Is Temporary

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Topics: Fighting, Thinking, Battle

It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

Topics: Real, Loss, Dna, Medical Research, 50th Anniversary

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Topics: New Roads, Forsaken, Chosen, Turning Points

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

Topics: Creative, Connections, Made

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Topics: Long, Challenges, Rooms, Overestimate

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.

source: - Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

Topics: People, Dying, Rehearsal

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

source: - "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

Topics: Tattoo

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

Topics: Inspirational, Kids, Thinking

The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

source: - "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Reality, People, Parkinson's, Parkinson

There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

source: - "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

Topics: Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism, Resiliency

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

source: - "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. April 13, 2010.

Topics: Mom, Father, Clouds, Secondary Education

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?

Topics: Vanity, Hands, Long

I definitely believe in a higher power.

Topics: Believe, Higher Power, Higher

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

Topics: Book, Attention, Pay

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

Topics: Nuts, Ferrari, Earning

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

source: - "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

Topics: Who I Am, Matter, Remember

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

source: - Source: www.cbc.ca

Topics: Awards, Long, Achievement, Lifetime Achievement

My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to be halting and at times tremulous and kind of just physically disturbed. I mean, that's my natural state, given the situation in my brain. But I'm always as happy either way. And so when it comes to me, body language lies.

Topics: Lying, Mean, Brain

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

Topics: Wall, Names, Balance, Slurs

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.

Topics: Conclusion, Department, Felt

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.

Topics: Opportunity, Looks, Stuff

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

Topics: Simple, Oxygen, Ideas

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.

Topics: Girl, Wall, Teenage

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

Topics: Frozen, Movement, Ends, Parkinson's, Parkinson

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

Topics: Husband, Father, Facts, Parkinson's, Parkinson

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

source: - "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

Topics: Spiritual, Believe, Humble, Being Bad

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Years, Eighteen Years Old, Checks

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

source: - "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. April 13, 2010.

Topics: Class, Missing, Lessons

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

Topics: People, Want, Ass

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

Topics: Sick, Television, Faces

I have a remarkably normal life.

source: - "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

Topics: Normal, Normal Life

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

Topics: Men, Irony, Young, Clinicals

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

Topics: Grateful, Passion, Character

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

Topics: Opportunity, Missing, Important

I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

source: - "Michael J Fox: 'Nobody pities me and that's great. I couldn't stand it'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

Topics: People, Empowering, Community

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Topics: Men, Brain, Speech

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

Topics: World

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

source: - "Michael J. Fox Would Not Want Taylor Swift to Date His Son" by Darla Murray, www.vulture.com. January 17, 2013.

Topics: Song, Writing, Careers

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

Topics: Hair, Long, Ankles, Indecent Exposure

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

Topics: People, Video, Blind, Blind Date