Quotes About Illness

'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.

It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

I remember Michael Jackson once called to see if I was feeling okay because I had gone home sick from the set of 'Goonies'; they'd shut down production for a couple days. I was so excited he called, but he didn't leave his number.

Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

What happens when you have an illness where you're never going to be healthy? Does that mean I'm never going to have a life? Am I never going to do anything or be anything other than a sick kid?

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.