Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Explaining how the two of them, up there in the Green Mountains, had managed to dial down life's urgencies and dial up… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah,… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time]… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral support, you may cross… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“I saw, during the midterm campaign of 2006, how difficult it was for opponents of stem cell research to run against hope. And so… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and of itself—what… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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