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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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" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

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" I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. "

" 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. "

" Family is not an important thing. It's everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a remarkably normal life. "

" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "

" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Pity is just another form of abuse. "

" I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time. "

" No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. "

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

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

" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "

" 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. "

" By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "

" 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. "

" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "

" As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. "

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" When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. "

" I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. "