Michael J. Fox Says He's Open to Returning to Acting: 'If Someone Offers Me a Part'

The actor announced his "second retirement" in 2020

Michael J. Fox isn't ready to say goodbye to acting for good.

The Back to the Future actor, 62, reflected on his decades-long acting career while speaking with Entertainment Tonight at the Michael J. Fox Foundation's A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's event on Tuesday, April 2, in Nashville.

While there, he watched a clip of a vintage interview with ET that was filmed when he was 22. At the time, he starred as Alex P. Keaton in NBC's Family Ties and expressed that he wanted to "do it all" and go beyond acting to explore writing, directing and editing.

As for whether he's accomplished his dreams, Fox confessed that his aspirations have since changed with time.

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"My biggest goal, I think, was to raise a family. We have four amazing kids and that's been the big thing," said the actor, giving a nod to Tracy Pollan, his wife of 35 years. "And then the other is with the foundation."

Asked if he'd return to acting, Fox explained, "If someone offers me a part and I do it and I have a good time, great. I mean, the documentary was a big thrill."

"I would do acting if something came up that I could put my realities into it, my challenges, if I could figure it out," he added.

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Also on Tuesday, Fox shared a hopeful update with PEOPLE.

“You know, my daughter's getting married too ... good things are happening, and life is good. And so it's been a good year, for sure,” the actor told PEOPLE at the Nashville event.

He shared that although he faced a number of "physical challenges" over the last year, "with the help of family, with the help of people that I work with, I've been able to meet those challenges and go beyond them and do new things."

“And the whole thing is just keep having new experiences, whether it's experiences that push forward, what we're trying to do and our mission with foundation."

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Fox revealed in 2020 that he was planning "a second retirement" amid his life with Parkinson's disease. The actor was diagnosed at age 29 in 1991.

He wrote in his book No Time Like the Future, that his "work as an actor does not define me," adding that his health struggles were only one factor in his decision to stop acting.

"The nascent diminishment in my ability to download words and repeat them verbatim is just the latest ripple in the pond," Fox wrote. "There are reasons for my lapses in memorization — be they age, cognitive issues with the disease, distraction from the constant sensations of Parkinson's, or lack of sensation because of the spine — but I read it as a message, an indicator."

He continued in part, "There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a twelve-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me. At least for now."

Fox was last seen on the big screen in 2019's See You Yesterday. He is also the subject of the 2023 documentary, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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