Michael J. Fox Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Real, Humility, Vanity

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

• 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

  Kids, Giving, Shining

• 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

  Keys, Differences, Giving

  "The success stories of our times". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.rd.com.

• 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

  Believe, Live Life, Law

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Always Looking Up”, p.161, Random House

• There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate in American culture. You approach familiar things a different way; you come at it from a different angle. It's a trait that runs through a lot Canadian artists' work and actors' work and musicians' - that kind of special remove.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Distance, Artist

  Source: www.cbc.ca

• 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

  Drama, Order, Ideas

• The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

  Michael J. Fox

  Giving, Stories, Consolation

  "Always Looking Up". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. September 2008.

• There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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