Michael J. Fox Quotes

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.

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

I have a remarkably normal life.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

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.

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.

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.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

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.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

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

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.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

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.

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

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.

What other people think of me is not my business.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

Family is not an important thing, it is everything

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

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

What other people think about me is not my business.

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.