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" 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. "

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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. "

" The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. "

" 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? "

" That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. "

" My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. "

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

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

" Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. "

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

" When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. "

" I definitely believe in a higher power. "

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

" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "

" 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. "

" Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "