Quotes About Hope

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

We believe in the people of San Diego.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.