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" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

I Am

Mind

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" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "

" I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. "

" Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. "

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" I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. "

" The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. "

" Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. "

" 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. "

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

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" I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "

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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. "

" Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. "

" Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? "

" 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. "

" I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. "

" 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. "

" I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. "

" After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. "

" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "

" 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. "