Carol Channing Quotes

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.

I was not active in films for three years owing to some treatments I was undergoing.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

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

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

My mother has battled breast cancer three times.

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

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

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.