22 Movie Quotes about Cancer (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about cancer, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Smoking? Don't smoke. Causes cancer.

Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980)

2 Old Detroit has a cancer. The cancer is crime.

Peter Weller as Alex Murphy RoboCop in RoboCop (1987)

3 Don't tell me. Lung cancer, right? -Well, not yet, thank goodness.

Margot Kidder as Lois Lane; Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent Superman in Superman (1978)

4 The sides did cure cancer. That's the problem. That's why they were expensive.

Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff in The Wolf of Wall Street

5 What do you say, Jack? I'm a Jew. I'm divorced. I'm broke. And I'm dying of cancer. Do you think I get a discount?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

6 I thought I had the flu. I'd still think I had the flu if they weren't telling me otherwise.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

7 No, I mean, can they operate or... -Maybe. That's what they said. Maybe. But it sounds suspiciously like no to me.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

8 You know what you think about when you're lying here? You know you're gonna die, and you think... that's all right. You lived a long time. You had a family that loved you.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

9 Hey, Sarge. You'll get lip cancer smoking those.

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986)

10 Can you crack a _ing window open, man? You know, it's proven that secondhand smoke is... You know, a cancer agent.

Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter in Fargo

22 Movie Quotes about Cancer (+ Sound Clips)

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