Michael J. Fox

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

“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 s...”

“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.”

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

“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 clic...”

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

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I...”

“I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”

“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”

“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.”

“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of somethin...”

“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what...”

“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.”

“I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get...”

“By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.”

“As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I definitely believe in a higher power.”