Top 160 Michael J. Fox Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.”

— Michael J. Fox

102. “I think there’s a god and I know it’s not me.”

— Michael J. Fox

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

— Michael J. Fox

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

— Michael J. Fox

105. “I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I’ve come to the conclusion that we all get an education.”

— Michael J. Fox

106. “They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, “Oh, man, you’re messing with my brain. It’s freaking me out.””

— Michael J. Fox

107. “I’m not a shill for the Democratic Party.”

— Michael J. Fox

108. “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

109. “Some of the best friends you’ll ever meet in your life, you’ll meet though your children – mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You’ll see. That’s the way it was for Bill and me. It’s one of the many gifts of parenting.”

— Michael J. Fox

110. “Humility is always a good thing. It’s always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.”

— Michael J. Fox

111. “If I don’t get food in my mouth, I’m still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don’t get arrested for indecent exposure, I’m happy. I’m worried about keeping my hair, not how it’s combed.”

— Michael J. Fox

112. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

113. “My tattoo is that I don’t have a tattoo.”

— Michael J. Fox

114. “He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.”

— Michael J. Fox

115. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

116. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

117. “The ‘Rescue Me’ gig was a unique opportunity to play a character – a misanthropic, angry guy – who was so contrary to how people think of me.”

— Michael J. Fox

118. “The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature – that makes me humble. It’s the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.”

— Michael J. Fox

119. “Still, what’s happened before and what may happen later can’t be as important as what’s happening now.”

— Michael J. Fox

120. “I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

— Michael J. Fox

121. “One of the great things about Parkinson’s, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don’t worry about what I look like, because it’s literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.”

— Michael J. Fox

122. “The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson’s. Everything else was up to me.”

— Michael J. Fox

123. “I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made.”

— Michael J. Fox

124. “When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.”

— Michael J. Fox

125. “If Spirituality is that you’re humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I’m a spiritual person.”

— Michael J. Fox

126. “As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

— Michael J. Fox

127. “When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.”

— Michael J. Fox

128. “I don’t keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.”

— Michael J. Fox

129. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

130. “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.”

— Michael J. Fox

131. “So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy’s big challenge is not having a Parkinson’s patient for a husband. It’s having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient.”

— Michael J. Fox

132. “Just as Parkinson’s isn’t a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.”

— Michael J. Fox

133. “My experience is to deal with things through humor.”

— Michael J. Fox

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

— Michael J. Fox

135. “Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I’ve made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.”

— Michael J. Fox

136. “As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.”

— Michael J. Fox

137. “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

138. “My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I’d been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.”

— Michael J. Fox

139. “I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can’t remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day – it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.”

— Michael J. Fox

140. “Carry on. If you’re going to do something, just do it.”

— Michael J. Fox

141. “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

142. “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

143. “I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson’s community are just really happy that Parkinson’s is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.”

— Michael J. Fox

144. “The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.”

— Michael J. Fox

145. “Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I’ve had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.”

— Michael J. Fox

146. “By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

— Michael J. Fox

147. “I definitely believe in a higher power.”

— Michael J. Fox

148. “I’ve dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.”

— Michael J. Fox

149. “As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.”

— Michael J. Fox

150. “I don’t look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don’t think I’m scrappy. I’m accepting.”

— Michael J. Fox