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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. "

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" 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. "

Michael J. Fox

Life

God

Amazing

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me. "

" 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. "

" I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. "

Michael J. Fox

Kid

Little

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

" 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 a benign form of abuse. "

" I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. "

" The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. "

Michael J. Fox

You

Walk

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. "

" Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Michael J. Fox

Power

Know

" What other people think about me is not my business. "

" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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