Michael J. Fox - biography

Biography

Michael J. Fox is best-known for the following films:

Michael J. Fox Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The real trick was in snorting all those drugs and making it look convincing. Al Pacino told me to use powdered milk. What he didn’t tell me was that the day after you’ve snorted a lot of this stuff, milk starts running down your nose...”

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

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”

“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Pain is temporary, film is forever.”

“Girls think you’re so cute when you’re short - always want to put me in their pocket. Great, as long as it’s their breast pocket.”

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

“I think of myself as tough. Cockroach tough.”

“What other people think about me is not my business.”

“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’.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.”

“I don’t want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can’t kick it.”

“I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.”

“I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”

“If 2 + 2 = 4 every time, what good is it? That’s no fun.”

“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.”

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“People always ask me if I say to myself ‘Why Me?’ and I tell them, ‘Why not me?’ [On being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease]”

“Sex and money are the two most desirable things in the world. I’ve worked really hard to get to a position where I haven’t got time to enjoy either as much as I’d like.”

“Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[On his future wife Pollan:] One day she came back from lunch with bad breath and I said ‘Whoa, scampi for lunch?’, and she said ‘You are the rudest son of asshole I have ever met in my life’ and I was immediately attracted to her like ‘Who is this woman?!’”

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