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" 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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Experiences

Alone

Community

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pity is just another form of abuse. "

" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. "

" 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

Three

Opportunity

" I have a remarkably normal life. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

Ambition

Hockey

" By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. "

" 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. "

" I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. "

" 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. "

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

" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. "