Disease quotes

“- Charlie: I have to take a pill every six hours or I feel... funny. No big deal.
- Irene: What's it called?
- Charlie: Advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.”
Jim Carrey - Charlie
Renee Zellweger - Irene

“- Frederic Chopin: No, that's my fiancée. We're no longer engaged. Her family didn't feel that I was a very good risk for a husband. You know, no one really expects me to live very long.
- George Sand: Balls!
- Frederic Chopin: I beg your pardon?
- George Sand: I don't believe you're, you're ill at all. You just need more strength. Take mine....” (continue)(continue reading)

Hugh Grant - Frederic Chopin
Judy Davis - George Sand

I come in here, I give these things to you, you check, you make your phone calls, look suspicious, ask questions. I'm sick. I have sickness all around me and you fucking ask me about my life? "What's wrong?" Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency? And then I'm asked fucking questions. What's... wrong? You... (continue)(continue reading)

Julianne Moore - Linda Partridge

“- Athos: What happened?
- Porthos: Kidney stones. It hurts when I piss. It hurts when I shit. I'm just a fat old fart with nothing to live for anymore. I'm going to hang myself, as soon as I'm sober.”

John Malkovich - Athos
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos

“- Mr. Alexander: Isn't it your picture in the newspapers? Didn't I see you on the video this morning? Are you not the poor victim of this horrible new technique?
- Alex: [relieved] Yes, sir! That's exactly who I am and what I am, sir. A victim, sir!”
Patrick Magee - Mr. Alexander
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“You know anything about this disease that I've got here? This Lou Gehrig's disease? It melts ya like a candle, you know? In my case, from the bottom up.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“- Jorge: I wouldn't be touchin' that if you saw the leper who was drooling all over that shit. Hey, Roy, you old fuck!
- Roy: What?
- Jorge: Get the boy a sandwich or something before he gets hepatitis!”

John Leguizamo - Jorge
Richard Bright - Roy

“- Madge: It is a disease.
- Her Ladyship: What is?
- Madge: Hopefulness.”
Dame Eileen Atkins - Madge
Zena Walker - Her Ladyship

“- Mary Hussey: Oh Bob. You're cured, so it's time to face the facts. Riding again was a dream! It helped you through your illness.
- Bob Champion: Don't waste your breath.
- Mary Hussey: The doctor told you your lungs are permanently damaged! You're as weak as a kitten! You've no feeling in your hands or feet! Bob, you can't ride a bicycle!”
Alison Steadman - Mary Hussey
Sir John Hurt - Bob Champion

I can remember a time in this country when men were proud to get cancer, goddammit! It was a sign of manhood! John Wayne had cancer twice. Second time, they took out one of his lungs. He said, "Take 'em both! I don't fuckin' need 'em! I'll grow gills and breathe like a fish".
Denis Colin Leary - Himself

“Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.”
Tom Hanks - Sam Baldwin

Because of the extensive area covered by papillomatus growths, the patient has been called "The Elephant Man".

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobady can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!”

Lewis Stone - Doctor Otternschlag

“If you caught gonorrhea, I'll kill you... I'm wearing too many clothes.”

Sean Young - Susan Atwell

“- Cigaweed Man: That's nothing but a cigarette...
- Carter: That's cigaweed!
- Cigaweed Man: Well it looked like a cigarette...
- Carter: You better have glaucoma.
- Cigaweed Man: I do.”
Wayne King - Cigaweed Man
Chris Tucker - Carter

“- Johnny Mnemonic: The Black Shakes. What causes it?
- Spider: What causes it? This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.”
Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic
Henry Rollins - Spider

“- Ancient Puzzler: What's a six letter word for a condition of the hypothalamus?
- Amy Archer: Goiter.”
Richard Whiting - Ancient Puzzler
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Amy Archer

“- Kimble: I have a headache.
- Lowell: It might be a tumor.
- Kimble: It's not a tumor! It's not a tumor. At all!”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Kimble
Ben McCreary - Lowell

“- DiMucci: You got something going with Paulette?
- Nogerelli: Let's just say I'm giving her therapy for her disease.
- DiMucci: Which disease?
- Nogerelli: Nymphomania.”
Peter Frechette - DiMucci
Adrian Zmed - Nogerelli

“- Detective Inspector McCall: In your work you must meet lots of different people every day. New people, new faces, no?
- Juliet Miller: Yes.
- Detective Inspector McCall: What do you recognize most, names or faces?
- Juliet Miller: Diseases.
- Detective Inspector McCall: Like recognizing criminals by their crimes.”
Ken Stott - Detective Inspector McCall
Kerry Fox - Juliet Miller

“Two thousand years ago we worshiped them as gods. Three hundred years ago we burned them at the stake, as witches. Now we treat them with drugs... and therapy.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Jake Rainer

“- Newland Archer: We should travel everywhere.
- Louisa van der Luyden: But not Naples. Doctor Bencomb says there is a fever there.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer
Alexis Smith - Louisa van der Luyden

- Jack Powell: You know what your problem is, Mister? You have “Exactly Disease”.
- Angry Man: What's that?
- Jack Powell: It's when your mouth smells exactly like your butt!
Robin Williams - Jack Powell
Edward Lynch - Angry Man

“Doc says I got cancer. First thing I ever got.”
Tom Waits - Rudy

“Civilization and syphilization have advanced together.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing