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Michael J. Fox

"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."

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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."

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"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

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"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

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"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
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"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."
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"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time."
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"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."
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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
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"After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks."
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"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."
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"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."
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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
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