Quotes About Health

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

I beat a brain tumor.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'

I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?

I'm the biggest hypochondriac you've ever seen in your life. When I get real stressed out, every little ache and pain I have is something major. If I've got a headache, it's a brain tumor; if I've got a chest pain, it's a heart attack.

A tumor often grows silently and doesn't start making itself known until it's pushing on structures or organs or tissues around it in a way that starts to mess up the whole system.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

I eat lots of veggies and pasta and nuts, tofu and soups. Works well for my body, and I also feel more in tune.

I just try to be in tune with my body. If I start to feel sick, I will try to catch it at the root. I don't really let myself get to the point where it becomes a problem. That's so important when you're travelling because if you land in Paris and you have to go from the airport straight to set, you don't have time to go to the doctor.

You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.