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 More Quotes by Michael J. Fox More Quotes From Michael J. Fox I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it. Michael J. Fox tired reality thinking When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time. Michael J. Fox love-life views mean There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. Michael J. Fox goal may running Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it. Michael J. Fox cancer paris talking In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it. Michael J. Fox struggle sides years I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too." Michael J. Fox stuff laughing thinking My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? Michael J. Fox age life-is thinking The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids. Michael J. Fox ifs father kids Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. Michael J. Fox greater i-can life-is The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. Michael J. Fox fighting sex dirty When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me. Michael J. Fox smart phrases people 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. Michael J. Fox ethical knows thinking
