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
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
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.
You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
What other people think about me is not my business.
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.
When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.
The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.