Quotes By Michael J. Fox

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

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

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.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

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.

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.

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

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

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.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

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

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

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.

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.

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

Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.

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

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.

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.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

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.

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.