Michael J Fox Quotes:- Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is a Canadian actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist, with a film and television career spanning from the 1970s. He starred in the Back to the Future trilogy in which he portrayed Marty McFly.
Other notable roles have included his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom Family Ties and Mike Flaherty on the ABC sitcom Spin City. He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Inspirational Michael J Fox Quotes And Sayings
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”-Michael J. Fox
“The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.”-Michael J. Fox
“Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.”-Michael J. Fox
“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
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It’s got five or six people, a new show every night, the same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“There’s always a failure. And there’s always a 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
“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
Best Michael J Fox Quotes About Action
“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.”-Michael J. Fox
“Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of the soul.”-Michael J. Fox
“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
“I often say now I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.”-Michael J. Fox
“In fact, Parkinson’s has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.”-Michael J. Fox
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”-Michael J. Fox
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“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
“I see possibilities in everything. For everything that’s taken away, something of greater value has been given.”-Michael J. Fox
“I love the irony. I’m perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.”-Michael J. Fox
Michael J Fox Quotes About Opportunity
“The only thing worse than an opportunity you don’t deserve is blowing an opportunity.”-Michael J. Fox
“So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy’s big challenge is not having a Parkinson’s patient for a husband. It’s having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient.”-Michael J. Fox
“As much as Parkinson’s is about movement, the end-stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I’m gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.”-Michael J. Fox
“Vanity’s really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall… I don’t need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.”-Michael J. Fox
“Pity is just another form of abuse.”-Michael J. Fox
“What other people think about me is not my business.”-Michael J. Fox
“I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”-Michael J. Fox
“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
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“I didn’t want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.”-Michael J. Fox
Famous Michael J Fox Quotes And Sayings
“If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there’s not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.”-Michael J. Fox
“After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.”-Michael J. Fox
“Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.”-Michael J. Fox
“Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.”-Michael J. Fox
“I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made.”-Michael J. Fox
“In my 50s I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.”-Michael J. Fox
“Pain is temporary, the film is forever.”-Michael J. Fox
“I have a remarkably normal life.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us.”-Michael J. Fox
“My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it’s my children’s birthright to be Jewish.”-Michael J. Fox
Famous Michael J Fox Quotes About Life
“I’ve never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.”-Michael J. Fox
“Just as Parkinson’s isn’t a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.”-Michael J. Fox
“I don’t look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don’t think I’m scrappy. I’m accepting.”-Michael J. Fox
“Pity is a benign form of abuse.”-Michael J. Fox
“I’m not a shill for the Democratic Party.”-Michael J. Fox
“I don’t have any affirmations, I don’t have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.”-Michael J. Fox
“I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”-Michael J. Fox
“I definitely believe in a higher power.”-Michael J. Fox
Top 10 Michael J Fox Quotes
“I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
“When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.”-Michael J. Fox
“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
“My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date because I feel like they’ve already seen the video on me.”-Michael J. Fox
“I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m an activist, I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world.”-Michael J. Fox
“My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.”-Michael J. Fox
“By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.”-Michael J. Fox
“No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.”-Michael J. Fox
“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.”-Michael J. Fox
