Michael J. Fox Quotes

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• I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
• When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately…
• They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
• No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you.…
• My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.
• 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 coming…
• There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse…
• Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness,…
• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.
• If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
• Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
• Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it…
• I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a…
• Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
• Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming…
• [Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that…
• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.
• If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
• There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't…
• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

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