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So much of what’s important in life seems to sneak up on me. So much time and energy invested in getting ready to go someplace, and then getting there, that the sensation of being there is a revelation.

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

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

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they’ve already seen the video on me.

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy.

The biggest gift on Father’s Day is if I can be with all my kids.

I didn’t just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else’s method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson’s being underfunded.

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 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.

I’ve dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient. I’m not fearful of my condition or my future – but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in ‘A Few Good Men’, “I CAN handle the truth.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I’ve had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.

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.

Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn’t belong to just me anymore – though I quickly learned that it hadn’t belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized.

Carry on. If you’re going to do something, just do it.

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson’s. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but as long as they didn’t identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation.

One of the great things about Parkinson’s, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don’t worry about what I look like, because it’s literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn’t really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

In fact, Parkinson’s has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

Some of the best friends you’ll ever meet in your life, you’ll meet though your children – mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You’ll see. That’s the way it was for Bill and me. It’s one of the many gifts of parenting.

Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I’ve made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can’t remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day – it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I’d been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

I don’t look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don’t think I’m scrappy. I’m accepting.

If Spirituality is that you’re humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I’m a spiritual person.

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

Still, what’s happened before and what may happen later can’t be as important as what’s happening now.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

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.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson’s. Everything else was up to 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.

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

After all that I’d been through, after all that I’d learned and all that I’d been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do teh best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

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.

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.

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 take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson’s community are just really happy that Parkinson’s is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

My tattoo is that I don’t have a tattoo.

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.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy’s big challenge is not having a Parkinson’s patient for a husband. It’s having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient.

My experience is to deal with things through humor.

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