By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.
Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
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.
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.
I don’t subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there’s kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
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.
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn’t yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
In fact, Parkinson’s has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.
In my 50s I’ll be dancing at my children’s weddings.
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 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 always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I’ve come to the conclusion that we all get an education.
I definitely believe in a higher power.
I don’t look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don’t think I’m scrappy. I’m accepting.
I love the irony. I’m perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made.
Just as Parkinson’s isn’t a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.