Robin Quivers Quotes

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I've been operated on 13 times.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

Radical surgery is never fun.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.