What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.