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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I definitely believe in a higher power. "

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

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

" Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. "

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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. "

" I have a remarkably normal life. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "