Ryan eager to marry cancer-stricken Farrah Fawcett

London, (ANI): American actor Ryan O'Neal has revealed that he is eager to get married to his long-time lover actress Farrah Fawcett, who is at the moment battling cancer.

The two, who have been together since 1982, have never sealed their union with marriage, and now that Fawcett, 62, is fighting anal cancer, which has spread to her liver since her initial diagnosis in 2006, O'Neal, 68, wants to make an honest woman of her.

“I'd do that, I would do that (marry Fawcett). She's still a little bit hesitant. I'm working though, I'm working," the Daily Star quoted him as telling ETonline.com. “You know she's been married, I've been married. She's said, 'We have a good thing'. But I said, 'You said that 30 years ago, shouldn't there be a sea change?' Maybe there is, you never know," he added.