Top 160 Michael J. Fox Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

52. “Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.”

— Michael J. Fox

53. “I don’t feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don’t have many regrets. So that’s a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.”

— Michael J. Fox

54. “Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.”

— Michael J. Fox

55. “A lighthouse... speaks to the guiding nature of hope. By equal turns, it illuminates and darkens, so the way forward can be chosen in the light, and trusted in the darkness.”

— Michael J. Fox

56. “So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it’s just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I’m just grateful for it.”

— Michael J. Fox

57. “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

58. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

59. “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

— Michael J. Fox

60. “This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.”

— Michael J. Fox

61. “No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today’s events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.”

— Michael J. Fox

62. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

63. “The only thing worse than an opportunity you don’t deserve is blowing an opportunity.”

— Michael J. Fox

64. “I can’t be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can’t be angry, because I haven’t lost it.”

— Michael J. Fox

65. “In my 50s I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.”

— Michael J. Fox

66. “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

67. “I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.”

— Michael J. Fox

68. “I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.”

— Michael J. Fox

69. “I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, “If you didn’t know how old you were, how old would you think you were?” I started changing it in my mind right away to, “If you didn’t know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?””

— Michael J. Fox

70. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

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

— Michael J. Fox

72. “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

73. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

74. “I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It’s this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that’s God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we’re swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

— Michael J. Fox

75. “The moment I understood this – that my Parkinson’s was the one thing I wasn’t going to change – I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.”

— Michael J. Fox

76. “I’ve never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.”

— Michael J. Fox

77. “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

78. “I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people’s lives through advocacy and through supporting research – that’s the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it’s certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.”

— Michael J. Fox

79. “I might have skipped class, but I didn’t miss any lessons.”

— Michael J. Fox

80. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

81. “Life is the power that’s greater than I can ever comprehend.”

— Michael J. Fox

82. “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

83. “You know what’s cool? My kids think I’m ordinary.”

— Michael J. Fox

84. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

85. “Life is the power that’s greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature – that makes me humble.”

— Michael J. Fox

86. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

87. “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

88. “I have a remarkably normal life.”

— Michael J. Fox

89. “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

90. “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

91. “No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous.”

— Michael J. Fox

92. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

93. “Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”

— Michael J. Fox

94. “This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn’t going to miss the gray. If.”

— Michael J. Fox

95. “If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn’t find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they’re really having a hard time.”

— Michael J. Fox

96. “But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.”

— Michael J. Fox

97. “Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.”

— Michael J. Fox

98. “Being in control of your own destiny is a myth – and wouldn’t be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it’s still okay to feel responsible for someone else’s.”

— Michael J. Fox

99. “I can say, “I don’t have anything I regret!” But I can also say, “I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don’t think I’ll accrue any future regrets.””

— Michael J. Fox

100. “I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is.”

— Michael J. Fox