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You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Autobiographer
Blogger
Film Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Andrew Fox
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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.
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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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I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.
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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.
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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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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.
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The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
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I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
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