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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 Fox)
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. View quote
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Pain is temporary, film is forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 Fox)
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. View quote
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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'. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? View quote
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If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person. View quote
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There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result. View quote
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The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business. (Michael 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. View quote
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Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. View quote
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Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. View quote
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I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. View quote
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