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

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

Great, Science, 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

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

Discipline, Doing, Way, Right, Watching

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

Humor, World, Think, Person, No Sense

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

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, More, Accept, Expect, Am

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

Value, Possibilities, See, Everything

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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

Good, Humility, You, Place, Try, Humbled

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. Michael J. Fox

Music, School, Puzzle, Me, High School

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. Michael J. Fox

Cute, Walk, Me, Thank You, Appreciate

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

Business, God, I Am, Perfection, Reach

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, Privilege

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

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, Teenagers

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

Doctor, People, Me, You, Nice, Him

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, Stand, You, Apple, Actor

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. Michael J. Fox

Curious, Early, Way, More, Kid, Outgoing

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. Michael J. Fox

Life, People, Me, Blind, Feel, Meeting

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. Michael J. Fox

Funny, Time, People, Negative, You, Find

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 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

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

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

Better, Judging, Off, Better Off, Least

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