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" 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
You
Stand
Star
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" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "
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" I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. "
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" Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. "
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" I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. "
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" The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. "
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" 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. "
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" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "
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" I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education. "
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" I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. "
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" I definitely believe in a higher power. "
Michael J. Fox
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Power
Higher
" I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "
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See
Everything
" 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 don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. "
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Words
You
Thinking
" Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. "
Michael J. Fox
Vanity
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Who
" 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. "
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People
Say
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" 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. "
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Music
Think
School
" What other people think about me is not my business. "
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Other
Think
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" I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. "
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Three
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" 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
Nature
Me
Life
" If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. "
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Hair
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Mouth
" Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. "
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Her
" I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me. "
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" My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. "
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" 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. "
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Up
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" So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. "
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Say
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" I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. "
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" I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling. "
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" 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. "
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