26 Quotes by Michael Fox
- 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.
- What other people think about me is not my business.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
- In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
- 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.
- One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Pain is temporary, film is forever.
- 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'.
- 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 only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
- Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
- After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
- 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.
- 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 worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
- I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
- 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 got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
- I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.
- 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 am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
- Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
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