A biography for Michael J. Foxhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.”
“I have a remarkably normal life.”
“My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.”
“The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.”
“Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.”
“What other people think about me is not my business.”
“After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.”
“By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.”
“I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.”