Quotes By Michael J. Fox

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.

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.

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

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

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.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

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.

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.

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.

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.