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. – Michael J. Fox
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. – Michael J. Fox
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. – Michael J. Fox
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
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. – Michael J. Fox
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. – Michael J. Fox
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. – Michael J. Fox
If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn’t find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they’re really having a hard time. – Michael J. Fox
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. – Michael J. Fox
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
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
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
I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. – Michael J. Fox
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us. – Michael J. Fox
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they’ve already seen the video on me. – Michael J. Fox
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. – Michael J. Fox