333 Quotes by Michael J. Fox

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.

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.

So much of what’s important in life seems to sneak up on me. So much time and energy invested in getting ready to go someplace, and then getting there, that the sensation of being there is a revelation.

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.

I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient. I’m not fearful of my condition or my future – but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in ‘A Few Good Men’, “I CAN handle the truth.

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

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.

After all that I’d been through, after all that I’d learned and all that I’d been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.