Michael J. Fox admits meeting wife Tracy Pollan was the ‘greatest gift’

Fox, 64, remembers moving from Canada to Los Angeles to “try to make it as an actor.”

After thunderous applause, the Back to the future star continued, “A teacher of mine told me, ‘Fox, you’re not going to be cute forever.’ I didn’t know what to say to that, so I said, ‘Maybe just long enough, sir.'”

“After three years of dumpster diving in LA, I ended up at… Family tieswhere I received the greatest gift of my career,” he added. “I met my wife, actor Tracy Pollan, who played Ellen, my friend, and she gave me four gifts: our children Schuyler, Aquinnah, Esmé and Sam. Sometimes I like to remind them that if they hadn’t acted, they wouldn’t be here.”