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" 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
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" 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'. "
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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. "
Michael J. Fox
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" If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. "
Michael J. Fox
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Mouth
" The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. "
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" Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. "
Michael J. Fox
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" 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
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Up
Hockey
" I have a remarkably normal life. "
Michael J. Fox
Normal
Remarkably
Life
" Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. "
Michael J. Fox
Everybody
Knew
Before
" In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. "
Michael J. Fox
Better Person
Fact
Me
" By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. "
Michael J. Fox
Acting
High
Time
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Any
Opportunities
Look
" I definitely believe in a higher power. "
Michael J. Fox
Higher Power
Power
Higher
" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "
Michael J. Fox
You
Much
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" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Risk
Off
Enough
" Pity is just another form of abuse. "
Michael J. Fox
Form
Another
Abuse
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Challenge
Say
Husband
" I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. "
Michael J. Fox
Fight
Think
Look
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Natural
Nature
Need
" Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. "
Michael J. Fox
Dying
People
Moment
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Way
Change
Looking
" Pity is a benign form of abuse. "
Michael J. Fox
Abuse
Form
Benign
" I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. "
Michael J. Fox
Hands
Because
Up
" I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. "
Michael J. Fox
Experiences
Alone
Community
" I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. "
Michael J. Fox
Me
Three
Opportunity
" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "
Michael J. Fox
Dancing
Children
Weddings
" Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. "
Michael J. Fox
Than
Help
Her
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Marriage
Together
Work
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
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Humility
Place
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Learning
Love
Reading
" 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. "
Michael J. Fox
Hockey
Golf
Dog