Quotes by 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."

"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

"The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded."

"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."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk."

"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."

"I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given."

"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."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"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."

"The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am."

"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'."

"The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are."

"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."

"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings."

"I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us."