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Michael J. Fox Quotes



Quotes by Michael J. Fox - (24 quotes)

Michael J. Fox - From the Acceptance category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Activity category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Ambition category:

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)

Michael J. Fox - From the Audience category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Belief category:

I definitely believe in a higher power. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Children category:

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)

Michael J. Fox - From the Choices category:

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Criticism category:

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Failure category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Fame category:

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Happiness category:

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Humility category:

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)

Michael J. Fox - From the Humour category:

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Importance category:

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)

Michael J. Fox - From the Life category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Money category:

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Money category:

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Opportunity category:

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Perfection category:

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Performance category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Possibilities category:

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Power category:

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Profession category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)

Michael J. Fox - From the Religion category:

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. (Michael J. Fox)