Michael J. Fox Quotes & Sayings

“Family is not an important thing. It's everything.”

“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.”

“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”

“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.”

“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'.”

“The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.”

“The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.”

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

“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.”

“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.”