Latest Michael J. Fox Quotes from Interviews

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• My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to be halting and at times tremulous and kind of just physically disturbed. I mean, that's my natural state, given the situation in my brain. But I'm always as happy either way. And so when it comes to me, body language lies.

  Michael J. Fox

  Lying, Mean, Brain

• I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Thinking, Expectations

  "A Lesson In Life From Michael J. Fox". Interview With Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

• There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Distance, Artist

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Opportunity, Waiting, Would Be

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

  Michael J. Fox

  Awards, Long, Achievement

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

  Michael J. Fox

  Issues, Immigration, Canada

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

  Michael J. Fox

  Father, Kids, Ifs

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Humble, Humility

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Ethical, Knows

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life Is, Greater, I Can

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

  Michael J. Fox

  Eye, Patient, Parkinson's

• Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

  Michael J. Fox

  Honesty, Choices, Kind

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Causes, Cause And Effect

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

  Michael J. Fox

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Humility, Vanity

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Age, Life Is

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

  Michael J. Fox

  Regret, Thinking, Way

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Regret, Nice, Adventure

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Struggle, Years, Sides

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

• A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

  Michael J. Fox

  Reality, People, Disease

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

• I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Tired, Thinking, Reality

  "Michael J. Fox Talks the Michael J. Fox Show, How Much the Show Draws From Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen Mtv’s Teen Wolf, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

• I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Laughing, Stuff

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

• The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

• I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

  Michael J. Fox

  Kids, Abuse, Important

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

• There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. 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.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Goal, May

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.