333 Quotes by Michael J. Fox

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

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

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

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'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

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

'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

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.