Michael Fox quotes - page 3

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. (Michael Fox)
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. View quote
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I have a remarkably normal life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. View quote
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If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. View quote
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I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. View quote
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I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. View quote
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I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. View quote
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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. (Michael Fox)
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. View quote
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My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. View quote
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I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. View quote
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When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. View quote
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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. View quote
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The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me. View quote
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Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. (Michael Fox)
Pity is a benign form of abuse. View quote
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I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. View quote
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The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. View quote
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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. View quote
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