Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox
Michael Andrew Fox, OC, known as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and activist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy; Alex P. Keaton from NBC's Family Ties, for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty in ABC's Spin City, for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 June 1961
CityEdmonton, Canada
CountryCanada
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By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.
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.
I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.
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.
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
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.
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.