Michael J. Fox opens up about Parkinson's progression: 'I won't be 80'
Beloved Canadian actor Michael J. Fox got candid in a recent interview about aging with Parkinson's disease and his own mortality.
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Beloved Canadian actor Michael J. Fox got candid in a recent interview about aging with Parkinson's disease and his own mortality.
More than they take mine. it did kind of sum up i had been, after three or four years, it was time to stop thinking and do. >> talk about the michael j. fox interview, though, how it changed your life. you asked him if he should conserve his energy and his answer was? >> and what would you be conserving your energy for? at the time, he didn't know that i had an illness. this was 10, 12 years ago when i was then, at that point, two years recovered from a serious illness which he did not know about. a few people did. i later wrote about it in my memoir ten years ago. last spring, i think it was ...
I wanted to be a hockey player. i wanted to be a rock star. i wanted -- until i finally stumbled into active which is the most respect i ever got! >> that was jane pauley then interviewing michael fox in 1991. jane credits that interview with helping change her outlook on life and changing your life is the focus of her new book. jane joins us now. i just love this story. >> thank you. >> good to have you on board. >> michael j. fox grew up to do all of those things he described. he still does all of those things. >> it's amazing. you can do a lot more than what you think you're setting out to ...