Timothy Spall Quotes

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

My mother is a two-time cancer survivor.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.