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

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

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

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

Proportion, Grows, Inverse

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

Better, Better Off, Amount

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

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

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

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

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Michael J. Fox
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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 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 didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. Michael J. Fox

Sign, Congressional, About

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

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

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

Humor, View, Colored

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

Found, Richness, Catastrophe

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

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

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. Michael J. Fox

Big, Happen, Big Challenge

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

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

Humor, Think, I Think

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

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

Pity is a benign form of abuse. Michael J. Fox

Abuse, Form, Benign

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

Body, Feel, Willing

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