Quotes from Michael J. Fox

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

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.

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.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

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'.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

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.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is a decision.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.