A biography for Michael J. Foxhasn’t been written yet.
“No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.”
“When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.”
“My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.”
“Pity is a benign form of abuse.”
“When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.”
“Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.”
“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.”
“I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”
“When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.”
“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”
“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.”
“So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.”
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”
“Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.”
“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.”
“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.”
“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.”