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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.
Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Michael Andrew Fox
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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.
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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.
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They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out.
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Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
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I have now is whenever my kids say, Can you look at this? or Can I ask you something? or Can you come here for a minute? no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, Just a sec. They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing alrea
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If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.
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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.
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You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
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I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.
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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.
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Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.
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In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
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If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.
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As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
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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.
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Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.
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My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
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