[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

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

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.