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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

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Understanding

Way

" I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. "

" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

Ambition

Hockey

" That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. "

Michael J. Fox

Way

Look

" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "

" 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. "

" 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

Life

" In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. "

Michael J. Fox

Better Person

Fact

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

" 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. "

" I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. "

" 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. "

" Pity is just another form of abuse. "

" 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. "

" I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. "

" I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "

Michael J. Fox

Show

" If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. "

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

Michael J. Fox

Marry

Funny

" 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. "

" So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it. "

" The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. "

" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "

" The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. "

" I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. "

" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

Short

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. "

" 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 don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. "

Michael J. Fox

Way

Goals