Michael J. Fox Quotes

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

Family, Important, Everything

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.
Michael J. Fox

Failure, Learning, Secret

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.
Michael J. Fox

Mean, Acceptance, Through

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

Judging, Off, Amount

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

Happiness, Acceptance, Direct

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

May, Cannot, Away

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
Michael J. Fox

Humor, Person, Sense

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

God, Business, Perfection

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
Michael J. Fox

Accept, Unhappy, Expect

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.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Power, Live

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.
Michael J. Fox

Nice, Him, Wanted

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.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Positive, Action

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.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Mind, Control

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

Wedding, Children, Dancing

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.
Michael J. Fox

Parents, Brain, Enough

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.
Michael J. Fox

Husband, Happen, Challenge

What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox

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.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, Bad

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.
Michael J. Fox

Marriage, Work, Together

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.
Michael J. Fox

Life, Good, God

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

Same, Anyone, Whether

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'.
Michael J. Fox

Mean, Laugh, Two

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.
Michael J. Fox

Angry, Lost, Lose

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
Michael J. Fox

Husband, Father, Human

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.
Michael J. Fox

God, Put, Expression

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Actor

Born: June 9, 1961

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