Michael J. Fox
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"Michael J. Fox", Order of Canada/OC is a Canadian American/Canadian-American actor, author, producer, and advocate. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty (Deputy Mayor)/Mike Flaherty in Spin City (1996–2001), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. Fox semi-retired from acting in 2000 as the symptoms of his disease worsened. He has since become an advocate for research toward finding a cure; he created the The Michael J. Fox Foundation/Michael J. Fox Foundation, and on March 5, 2010, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave him a Honorary degree/honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.

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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.

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.

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

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

I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

What other people think about me is not my business.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

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.

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

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

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

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'.