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" Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. "
Michael J. Fox
Big
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House
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" What other people think about me is not my business. "
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" The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. "
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" I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. "
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" Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. "
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Myself
" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. "
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" You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. "
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" I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling. "
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" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "
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" I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Pity is just another form of abuse. "
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" 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'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. "
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