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

Michael J. Fox Quotes

Canadian - Actor Born: June 9, 1961

Family is not an important thing. It's everything. - Michael J. Fox

Family is not an important thing. It's everything. Michael J. Fox

Family, Important

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. Michael J. Fox

Acceptance, Through, Means

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

Grows, Inverse, Proportion

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. Michael J. Fox

Learning, Always, Secret

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. Michael J. Fox

Give, Other, Break

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. Michael J. Fox

Medical, Disease, Treatment

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

Excellence, I Am, Confuse

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. Michael J. Fox

New, Players, Six

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

I Am, Unhappy, Expect

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

Think, Humor, I Think

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

Possibilities, Been, Given

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. Michael J. Fox

Circumstances, Always, Deal

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. Michael J. Fox

Positive, Behind, Like

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

Humor, View, Colored

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. Michael J. Fox

Enough, Skip, Weeping

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

Better, Better Off, Amount

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. Michael J. Fox

Love, Work, Alive

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. Michael J. Fox

Long, I Can, About

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. Michael J. Fox

Other, Surrounding, Often

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. Michael J. Fox

Through, Half, TV

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

Fact, Human Being, Made

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. Michael J. Fox

Star, Boxes, Everybody

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. Michael J. Fox

Going, Like, Could

What other people think about me is not my business. Michael J. Fox

Business, Think, Other

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. Michael J. Fox

Humble, Through, Comprehend

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

Away, May, Mocked

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