Surgery Quotes

• I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

  

  Eva Herzigova
  • Surgery
  • Undergo

• When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Ideas
  • Looks
  • Cutting

• The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

  

  Ryan Stiles
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Star

• I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Surgery

• I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Feet
  • Surgery

• The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cure
  • Amputations
  • Egotists

• I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Surgery

• If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Surgery
  • Cosmetic

• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Reading
  • Teaching
  • Surgeons

• I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Remember
  • Spirit
  • Enjoy

• I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

  

  Hasnat Khan
  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Bachelor

• Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

  

  Nguyen Quyen
  • Cancer
  • Surgery
  • Nerves

• I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. This resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Enjoy
  • Issues
  • Critic

• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Tennis
  • Jazz

• I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it.

  

  Emmanuelle Alt
  • Today
  • Surgery
  • My Face

• If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

  

  Richard Selzer
  • Afraid
  • Surgery

• I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Problem
  • Feet
  • Havens

• You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.

  

  Euny Hong
  • Race
  • Evidence
  • Vain

• Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Record
  • Making
  • Anesthetic

• In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

  

  Eva Green
  • Business
  • Actors
  • Surgery

• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Poison
  • Surgery
  • Infection

• Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Cancer
  • Happens
  • Surgery

• I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Healthy
  • Laugh
  • Clown

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