Canadian - Actor | June 9, 1961 -
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
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Pity is a benign form of abuse.
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If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.
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I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.
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I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
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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?
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Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.
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I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.
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I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.
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I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
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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 interested.
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