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Michael J. Fox Biography

Michael Andrew Fox, OC (born June 9, 1961), known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and activist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox starred in the Back to the Future trilogy, where he portrayed Marty McFly. Other notable roles have included Mike Flaherty on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2000) and his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton on the American sitcom Family Ties. He has won five Emmys, four Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

Affirmations, Looks, Opportunity, Possibilities, Stuff, Things

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Canada, Canadian, Immigration, Issues, Prouder, Refugee

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

Challenged, Inspired, Know, Knowledge, Knows, Urge

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.

Acting, Ambition, Growing Up, Hockey, Thing, Tried

People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

Discovery, Drinking, Genuine, Leadership, Sand, Steps

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Depressed, Joy, Life, Live Life, Sadness

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

Achievement, Awards, Know, Long, Message

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me. . . having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

Armstrong, Cancer, Having, Making, Paris, Talking

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Giving Up, Taken, Optimistic, Everything, Away

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.

Ends, Frozen, Happen, Movement, Stuck, Unable

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 something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Acknowledge, Challenges, Long, Operate, Rooms, Truth

I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine. " It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.

Boots, Cowboy, Fighting, Like, Son, Victory

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Views, Life Is, Situation, Looking, Life

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

Calling, Destiny, Drinking, Hands, Movement, Twitch

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

Address, Addresses, Everything, Gratitude, Not Sure

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.

Foreheads, Humble, Humility, Running, Runs

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.

Consequences, Dna, Life, Loss, Patients, Real

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.

Drama, Girl, Girls, Hands, Nicked, Took

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.

Moment, Moments, Research, Thing, Things, Way

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Film, Forever, Funny, Movie, Pain

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