Quotes by Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox

‘Why do you think it is…’, I asked Dr. Cook … ‘that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?’ [Dr. Cook answered,] ‘No margin for error.’

Errors

Science

Thinking

[Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I’m surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, ‘Oh, that’s a new thing, that’s a new gift that I got today that I didn’t even know about yesterday,’ it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!

Grateful

Today

Yesterday

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Father

Lasts

Son

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Creative

Idle

Mess

A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people’s projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you’re having. There’s nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it’s not horrible.

Disease

People

Reality

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.

Acceptance

Mean

Motivational

Acceptance is the key to everything.

Acceptance

Keys

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Checks

Eighteen Years Old

Years

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 teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

Given

Lasts

Years

Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson’s], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, “Fox’s Parkinson’s, blah, blah, blah.” Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, “Can young people get Parkinson’s?” All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things.

Couple

Eye

Two

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Abuse

Acceptance

Achievement

Acting

Action

Actors

Addresses

Adventure

Age

Agents

Ambition

Animal

Ankles

Apples

Appreciate

Artist

Ass

Attention

Awards

Balance

Battle

Believe

Bills

Birthright

Blessing

Blind

Blow

Book

Boys

Brain

Bullets

Bullshit

Can Do

Canada

Cancer

Careers

Cases

Cat

Cause And Effect

Causes

Challenges

Change

Character

Checks

Children

Choices

Chosen

Class

Clouds

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Quotes by Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox

‘Why do you think it is…’, I asked Dr. Cook … ‘that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?’ [Dr. Cook answered,] ‘No margin for error.’

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

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.

Acceptance is the key to everything.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

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 teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

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