You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. Michael J. Fox More Quotes by Michael J. Fox More Quotes From Michael J. Fox If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today. Michael J. Fox feet yesterday today If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of. Michael J. Fox agents made want It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness. Michael J. Fox destiny drinking hands I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. Michael J. Fox parkinson parkinsons community 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 good-morning sunday ideas With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space. Michael J. Fox shoes space thinking 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. Michael J. Fox feel-good mind steps 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. Michael J. Fox shining giving kids 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 hockey growing-up ambition I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. Michael J. Fox eccentric littles kids 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. Michael J. Fox dog exercise golf I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. Michael J. Fox ambition two thinking After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me. Michael J. Fox given lasts years 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 cancer health science 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 animal zoos needs If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper. Michael J. Fox kids book school Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. Michael J. Fox teenager risk parent When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. Michael J. Fox doctors differences dream There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result. Michael J. Fox acting play character You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. Michael J. Fox suffering blow opportunity
