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Michael J. Fox [1961-0] Canadian

Rank: 101
Actor

Michael Andrew Fox, OC, known as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and activist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy; Alex P.

Funny, Good, Humor, Amazing, Business, Chance, Dad, Failure, Family, Freedom, God, Happiness, Learning, Marriage, Medical, Morning, Nature, Positive, Science, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.	Family	101
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.		102
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.	Good	103
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.		104
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.		105
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.	Good, Positive	106
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.	Business, God	107
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.	Nature	108
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.		109
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.	Freedom	110
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.		111
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.	Failure, Learning	112
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.		113
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.	Dad	114
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'.		115
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.	Happiness	116
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.	Marriage	117
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.	Humor	118
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.		119
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.		120
Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.		121
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.	Humor	122
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.	Truth	123
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.		124
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.		125
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.	Funny	126
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.	Funny, Morning	201
I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.		202
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.		203
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.		204
What other people think about me is not my business.		205
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.		206
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.		207
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.		208
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.		209
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.		210
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.		211
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.		212
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.	Medical, Science	213
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.		214
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.		215
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.		216
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.	Chance	217
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.		218
I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.		219
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.		220
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.		221
Pain is temporary, film is forever.		222
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.		223
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.		224
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.		225
I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.		226
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.		301
I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.		302
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.		303
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.		304
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.		305
I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.		306
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.	Amazing	307
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.		308
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.		309
I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.		310
Pity is just another form of abuse.		311
When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.		312
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.		313
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.		314
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.		315
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.		316
Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.		317
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.		318
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.		319
I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.		320
Pity is a benign form of abuse.		321
I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.		322
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.		323
By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.		324
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.		325
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.		326
I definitely believe in a higher power.		401
I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.		402
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.		403
I have a remarkably normal life.		404
I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.		405
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.		406
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.		407
Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.		408
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.		409
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.		410
My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.		411
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?		412
If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.		413
Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.		414
I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.		415
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.		416
I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.		417
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.		418

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