Michael J. Fox Quotes
"What other people think about me is not my business."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Business, People)
"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
(Related: People, Actor, Care, Deep, Feeling)
"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
(Related: People, First)
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Idea, Chance, Order, Television, Want)
"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
(Related: Idea, Woman)
"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
(Related: Discipline, Being, Eating, Hell)
"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Children, Dancing, Weddings)
"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
(Related: Medical, Science, Time, Progress, Cure, Disease, Prevention, Treatment)
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Dignity, May)
"Pain is temporary, film is forever."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Film, Pain)
"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Cute, Girls)
"The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: People, Night, Theater)
"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Opportunity)
"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Help)
"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
(Related: Thought, Old, Years)
"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
(Related: Time, People, Nothing, Problems)
"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
(Related: Opportunity)
"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Movies, Being, Connection)
"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
(Related: Love, Being, Irony, Man, Old)
"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
(Related: Acting, Ambition, First, Growing up, Writer)
"I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face."
- Michael J. Fox
"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: People, Want)
"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
(Related: Work, Drama, Girls, Want)
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Business, God, Excellence, Perfection)
"Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: World)
"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Family)