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Michael J. Fox
Canadian
Actor
About the author
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.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Right
#Nature
#Animals
What other people think about me is not my business.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Business
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.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Feeling
#Deep
#Actor
#Care
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#First
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Chance
#Idea
#Television
#Order
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Woman
#Idea
If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Eating
#Being
#Hell
#Discipline
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Children
#Dancing
#Weddings
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Science
#Disease
#Treatment
#Progress
#Cure
#Prevention
#Medical
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Dignity
#May
Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Film
#Pain
The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Girls
#Cute
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Night
#Theater
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Opportunity
Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Help
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Years
#Thought
#Old
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#People
#Nothing
#Problems
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.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Opportunity
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Being
#Movies
#Connection
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Love
#Being
#Man
#Old
#Irony
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.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Acting
#First
#Writer
#Ambition
#Growing up
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#People
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.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Work
#Girls
#Drama
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#God
#Perfection
#Business
#Excellence
Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#World
Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
Michael J. Fox,
Canadian
Actor
#Family