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I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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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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.
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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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My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.
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There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.
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When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.
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I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
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When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
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I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.
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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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Optimism is a cure for many things.
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My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to be halting and at times tremulous and kind of just physically disturbed. I mean, that's my natural state, given the situation in my brain. But I'm always as happy either way. And so when it comes to me, body language lies.
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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.
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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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Pain is temporary, film is forever.
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I definitely believe in a higher power.
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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
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There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
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