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After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
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Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
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Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
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I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
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I didn't want to do a Family Ties type show. It never really represented my outlook and my sense of humor. I'm at once very optimistic and very cynical, and on this show [Spin City] I can be that.
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I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.
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I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
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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.
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I heard from thousands of PD patients and their families about their daily struggles, their frustrations and their hopes. For me, it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. This did more than just console me, it inspired me.
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I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
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I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
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I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.
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I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
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I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.
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I'm managing a physical situation. It taught me great discipline and an awareness of what I can expect from myself.
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If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
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In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
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It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.
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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.
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My son will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
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Nobody would choose to have a disease visited upon them. Still, Parkinson's forced me to make a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality - or embark upon a life journey.
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
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Pain is temporary, film is forever.
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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'.
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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.
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The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
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Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
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What other people think about me is not my business.
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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 order. Just give me the chance at them.
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You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

Biography

Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is a Canadian-born actor, made famous by his roles as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy and as Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties.

Born Michael Andrew Fox in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he adopted the J as a homage to character actor Michael J. Pollard. He has written an autobiographical book, called Lucky Man, about his experience of young-onset Parkinson's disease.

Notable roles include the Back to the Future movies, Mars Attacks!, Teen Wolf, and the TV series Family Ties and Spin City. He is the voice of Stuart Little in the series of movies based on the popular book by E. B. White, Chance in the Homeward Bound series, and Milo Thatch in '.

In 1991 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Since then he has been a strong advocate of Parkinson’s disease research, especially stem cell research, which he believes may one day help sufferers of Parkinson's and other debilitating illnesses.

In 2000, he announced that he would be retiring from the lead role of Spin City after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. (A new lead character would be created for Fox's replacement, Charlie Sheen.)

In 2003, he wrote a pilot episode for a sitcom series entitled Hench at Home, but a full series was not produced.

Fox married actress Tracy Pollan in 1988. He has four children.

Select filmography

*Back to the Future (1985)
*Teen Wolf (1985)
*The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
*Casualties of War (1989)
*Back to the Future Part II (1989)
*Back to the Future Part III (1990)
*Doc Hollywood (1991)
*Homeward Bound|Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) (voice)
*For Love or Money (1993)
*Greedy (1994)
*The American President (1995)
*Mars Attacks! (1996)
*Homeward Bound|Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) (voice)
*The Frighteners (1996)
*Stuart Little (1999) (voice)
*
' (2001) (voice)
*Stuart Little 2 (2002) (voice)
*Scrubs (2003/2004) (guest appearance)

...(more on Wikipedia)

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