Michael J. Fox Quotes

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

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.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

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

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

Optimism is a cure for many things.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

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.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

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.

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.

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.

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 look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

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.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

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.

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

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

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

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.

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

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.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

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.

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.

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.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

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

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

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

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.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

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

I definitely believe in a higher power.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.