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, Way, Mean

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, More, Serene, Am

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, Great, Time, Progress, Medical

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

Happiness, Acceptance, Expectations

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

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

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, Right, Natural

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

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

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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. Michael J. Fox

Freedom, Myself, Choices, Choice, React

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

Life, Humor, Best, Looking, View, Any

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, Perfection

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

Value, Possibilities, Everything, See

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

Parents, Brain, Enough, Risk, Sit, Off

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

Discipline, Doing, Way, Watching, Right

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, Wall, Go

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 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

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. Michael J. Fox

Opportunity, You, Deserve, Only, Worse

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

Me, Shine, You, Say, Will, Whatever

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. Michael J. Fox

Walk, Words, Walls, Name, Remember

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

Better, Judging, Off, Better Off, Least

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, Humbled

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. Michael J. Fox

Ambition, Growing Up, Hockey, Acting, Up

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

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