Michael J. Fox

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don’t have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you’ve got all kinds of choices.

Michael J. Fox

Acceptance is the key to everything.

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

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.

Michael J. Fox

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

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

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

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

Michael J. Fox

Being in control of your own destiny is a myth-and wouldn’t be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it’s still okay to feel responsible for someone else’s.

Michael J. Fox