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, Everything, Thing

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, Understanding, Mean, Way

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

Happiness, Acceptance, Expectations

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

Science, Time, Great, Progress, Medical

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, Failure, Disappointment, Loss

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

Business, God, Excellence, I Am, Reach

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, Good, People, Action, Realize

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

Life, Best, Humor, Looking, View, Any

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

Walk, Short, Apple, Stand, You, Star

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. Michael J. Fox

Words, Me, Thinking, Think, You, Talk

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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. Michael J. Fox

Shine, Me, You, Say, Will, Always

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. Michael J. Fox

People, Face, Search, Church, Feeling

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, Accept, Expect, More, Am

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

Better, Judging, Off, Better Off, Least

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

Good, Together, People, Dinner, Night

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. Michael J. Fox

Funny, Morning, Woman, Sunday, Jewish

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

Discipline, Doing, Watching, Way, Right

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. Michael J. Fox

Me, People, Doctor, You, Nice, First

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Michael J. Fox

Always, Younger, Happy-Go-Lucky

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? Michael J. Fox

Life, Time, Control, My Life, Look, Free

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

Dignity, May, Away, Cannot, Taken

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

Change, Moment, Research, Looking, Way

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. Michael J. Fox

Nature, Animals, Need, Natural, Right

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

Work, People, Research, Enjoy, Kind

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

Good, Humility, You, Place, Try, Always

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

Humor, World, Think, Sense Of Humor

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