Michael J. Fox Quotes - BrainyQuote

Canadian - Actor Born: June 9, 1961

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Acceptance Understanding Way Mean

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

Discipline Way Doing Watching

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

I Am Unhappy More Accept

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

Happiness Acceptance Expectations

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.

Learning Failure Disappointment Loss

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

God I Am Business Excellence

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

Family Important Everything Thing

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.

Time Science Great Progress

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Myself Freedom Nothing Choices

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

Humor World Think Person

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My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Life Best Looking Humor

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.

Good You Humility Place

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.

Positive Good People Action

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.

Good People Together Dinner

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

Dignity Cannot Away May

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.

Funny Time People You

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

Better Judging Off Least

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.

Face People Feeling Church

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.

Good Me I Am Step

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

Value Everything See Possibilities

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'.

Me Cute You Walk

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.

Nature Need Animals Right

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Abuse Pity Form Benign

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.

Look Opportunities Things Natural

I have a remarkably normal life.

Life Normal Normal Life Remarkably

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.

I Am Picture Pretty Need

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