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

Through, Means, Acceptance

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, Expect, Unhappy

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

Always, Learning, Secret

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

Treatment, Medical, Disease

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

Grows, Inverse, Proportion

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

Humor, Think, I Think

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

Better, Amount, Better Off

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

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

Surrounding, Other, Often

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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

Face, Search, Brings

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

Human Being, Fact, Made

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. Michael J. Fox

Richness, Found, Catastrophe

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

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

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

Possibilities, Given, Been

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

View, Humor, Colored

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, Six, Players

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

Always, Circumstances, Deal

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

Skip, Weeping, Enough

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

Doing, Right Way, Same

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

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

Becoming, Habitat, Natural

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

Half, Through, TV

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

Mocked, Away, May

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. Michael J. Fox

Willing, Feel, Body

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