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
Michael J. Fox quotes about
I have a remarkably normal life.
My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.
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 thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.
Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.
As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.