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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.
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've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.
In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.
I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
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 can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
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.
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
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.
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.
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 always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
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.
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
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 like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
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.
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
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.
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.
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.
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.
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.