Quotes from Michael J. Fox

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

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.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

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.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

I have a remarkably normal life.

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.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

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.

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

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

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.