“I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm a…” — Michael J. Fox

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.

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 find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

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.