"Cancer was a word which did not belong to our vocabulary up to this day. But if this illness hits someone you love, there's only one thing: You must fight against it, otherwise you will be destroyed by that, what life hits you over the head."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Celine Dion

• "After the show, I was so impressed. I wanted to go backstage, and I wanted ..."
• "After what happened to Rene and after what happened on the 11th in New York, ..."
• "All my life I said I feel different types of music, but I don't feel ..."
• "As a Canadian, or as an American, or as whatever nationality you are, I don't ..."
• "As long as my fans enjoy my music and I'm happy in myself, my life ..."
• "At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps ..."
• "Becoming a mother makes you a grown-up. You're all they have. They trust you, they ..."
• "Before appearances I only can eat a little. And after a show I don't like ..."
• "Before Rene had chemotherapy, we decided to put some sperm in the bank and go ..."
• "But a new day has also come in the lives of other people because something ..."
• "Caesar's Palace were interested in building a 4,000-seater Coliseum for us. Cirque du Soleil's Franco ..."
• "Cancer gave us another way to look at each other. We not only loved each ..."
• "Children know the secrets of life. To be around children makes you discover the child ..."
• "Dove soap, my dermatologist recommended it. It makes the hardest water soft and it's available ..."
• "Even today I'm afraid of losing me, I'm afraid of losing him. Every day becomes ..."
• "Every song can now become a visual experience, which I think puts it all on ..."
• "Every song will be a video. It's going to be very spectacular. "
• "Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them. "
• "For us, like every parent, he's the most intelligent, he's the most beautiful, he's the ..."
• "Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins and which can be eat the whole ..."
• "Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have ..."
• "He cannot be a normal baby for us, because he's not. "
• "How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in ..."
• "I always can say: I eat normal, even a lot. Ice-cream, cake, sandwiches-I love food! "
• "I always put on makeup at home, because I think I'm looking boring without it. "
• "I am different. When somebody so close to you gets sick, and when you give ..."
• "I am extremely disciplined. I've already learned it when I was a little girl. In ..."
• "I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. ..."
• "I can hardly believe my luck. It's a ridiculously insane amount of money, but then ..."
• "I control myself at the table and stop eating when I'm full. "
• "I didn't feel the pressure to try and outdo anything. I proved myself before, so ..."
• "I didn't have holiday for nearly 15 years, that will be made up for now-without ..."
• "I didn't miss performing, I did not miss a second of it. Because I didn't ..."
• "I didn't want a nurse. I wanted to do it myself, and every night we ..."
• "I don't have something against small cosmetical operations. "
• "I don't listen to my own music at home. "
• "I don't want to go on tour and sing one song into the another and ..."
• "I felt very weak and small with everything that's happened in the world... and yet ..."
• "I gave life, and that is beautiful. "
• "I got very busy. We love to golf together. I was there for my husband, ..."
• "I had lots of dreams when I was younger: to become an international singer, to ..."
• "I have a very obstinate cold, but inside this room it's warm. "
• "I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and ..."
• "I knew I needed to take a break, to empty myself, to fulfill myself with ..."
• "I knew I was going to come back. There was no sadness. One emotional moment ..."
• "I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but ..."
• "I like go swimming, that good for the skin. And I started playing golf long ..."
• "I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and ..."
• "I love children, but now I have a child and I make a difference in ..."
• "I love it when you see which similarities my son and I have. When I ..."
• "I might think the feet of my husband are sexy. Sometimes I make him a ..."
• "I needed to take a long break, I needed to have a normal life for ..."
• "I receive about 1,000 songs a year, and I have a great team with me ..."
• "I remember taking like a year off changing my style a little bit because people ..."
• "I sang to him while I was pregnant in the shower. You know, he got ..."
• "I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. ..."
• "I started working with 14 years and didn't stop since that time. I had always ..."
• "I think I fell in love with Rene the first time I met him, but ..."
• "I think that all on me is well-proportinated. "
• "I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's ..."

• "I think the music industry changed. Listening to some music at home from Britney Spears ..."
• "I think we have a great album. I feel like I have things to sing ..."
• "I think we stopped wanting the future too much. "
• "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business. "
• "I was 14 years old. I was with my mother. It was my first French ..."
• "I was looking forward to seeing my husband and having a life and maybe trying ..."
• "I was not ready to do the big jump and come back with a rap ..."
• "I was thin my whole life and a few weeks after the birth of Rene ..."
• "I went crazy about what I was going to wear, which is ridiculous because I ..."
• "I went to a Berlitz school for two months, every day, nine to five. It ..."
• "I will marry my husband once again. Five is our lucky number, five years ago ..."
• "I will never be the same. "
• "I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and ..."
• "I wish we were all naked all of the time. I get so sick of ..."
• "I won't have to fly anywhere for while. I'll do my show every night and ..."
• "I'm addicted to make up. I'm buying beauty products like wild. "
• "I'm flattered when they take the time to impersonate you. I think it's a good ..."
• "I'm going to go to New York, take the plane and never come back. Something's ..."
• "I'm here because I want to be with people. I want to enter their lives. "
• "I'm just starting to control my emotions when I talk about my son. "
• "I'm slim by nature and I have a small breast, but I can live with ..."
• "I'm very aware that I have never been considered trendy as an artist. I still ..."
• "I'm very happy. I love to sing. I mean, it's not a new thing. It's ..."
• "I've always believed it's what's underneath that counts. If we were all forced to be ..."
• "I've had time to be sick for the first time in 18 years. There's been ..."
• "I've never been cool-and I don't care. "
• "I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is ..."
• "If I could, I would have 14 kids like my parents had. But I think ..."
• "If people need a partner, a helping hand, to cry, to dance, whatever it is, ..."
• "If the opportunity comes to do a really great movie, I would like that. By ..."
• "If you begin to ask: Why we, why that, everything, then you become crazy. Don't ..."
• "If you don't hear from me again, you'll know I'll be happy because I'll have ..."
• "If you want it so bad, it gets easier. You go to New York for ..."
• "In the age of 15 I recorded two German songs, I liked it. German is ..."
• "In vitro... it's a long process, a lot of patience. It involves a lot of ..."
• "Isn't it amazing that we always have to be heroes? Like, it's okay to say, ..."
• "It was Florida and it was Montreal. I listened to music, I watched TV, I ..."
• "It was so touching to see the two men of my life embracing. "
• "It was very emotional to be home and do one last farewell show. I was ..."
• "It's children. It's human being. It's love. It's making a difference in somebody's life. "
• "It's our room, 200 shows per year, five shows a week, and... 60 performers on ..."
• "It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. "
• "James Cameron didn't want to have any songs in this movie. The composer James Horner ..."
• "Look at Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. She's a clever girl, because like me, ..."
• "Love is kitschy! "
• "Maybe I've done it-for 20 years I've done it so much that I still hear ..."
• "Maybe we do some intimate shows here and there, something unplugged, something light. "
• "Maybe we'll try for another child with more IVF. "
• "Meal is often a ceremony at us in order to get the right people together ..."
• "My body is my friend. "
• "My child changed my life totally. And I didn't have the need to sing anymore. ..."
• "My family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love. "
• "My goal is to drive my son to school every day. And Vegas will end, ..."
• "My husband and me retired for two years, so that there will be less talking ..."
• "My husband got ill almost three years ago. He got cancer. And he needed me ..."
• "My husband Rene and I were recently out for dinner in Berlin. Sausages with sauerkraut ..."
• "My mom was 41 when I was born. "
• "My real dream came true. We had a son. "
• "No sophisticated time schedule anymore, that is something marvelous. Just cooking noodles, cultivating tomatoes, playing ..."

• "Nobody said it was going to be easy. But I want to be successful as ..."
• "Not every song is a big ballad, but every song is as powerful. "
• "Of course I hope the album is going to be as successful for the record ..."
• "People used to laugh and call me vampire because I had these big teeth like ..."
• "People who do such bad things in the world-they're probably not around kids a lot. "
• "Rene actually has no good voice for singing, more like a godfather in a mafia ..."
• "Rene isn't interested in fashion. What I like he likes, too! We don't love each ..."
• "Rene used to organize everything. But when he told me that he needed me, I ..."
• "Rene was my manager and husband, but I felt we were starting to lose the ..."
• "Rene was very scared, and I saw him scared the first time in my whole ..."
• "Shall I go on 15 years more just to find out: My parents are dead, ..."
• "Since I was a little child, my nose-I think it's too big. "
• "So far so good. We take it a day at a time. "
• "Sometimes it's embarrassing for myself, when I'm sitting in a restaurant with other people who ..."
• "Sometimes people imitate you, and Anna Gasteyer exaggerates my character and personality, but it's funny. ..."
• "Sometimes when something like this happens to you, you have no choice. It's something that ..."
• "Speaking honestly: Rene loves me the most when I'm wearing nothing. "
• "The most important thing is to accept yoursel, and that's what I have done. I ..."
• "The only way to be stable is to be in one place. I'm going to ..."
• "The past three years have been so precious to me because they've shown me how ..."
• "The rumours, that say I would eat only salad and raw vegetables-aren't true. I just ..."
• "There's a big age difference, but I think older men have so much more to ..."
• "There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life. "
• "There's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable. I ..."
• "There's something of everthing in my bathroom. "
• "There's two people that I do love so-that I admire, that I look up to ..."
• "They're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not ..."
• "This is my big return, for sure. Every time I do something, it is entirely ..."
• "Throuh my husband Rene Angelil I knew golf. For him golf is like a religion, ..."
• "To learn more languages, Spanish, Italian-or better, Japanese and Chinese-they take over the world economy ..."
• "Two years ago I saw the Cirque de Soleil. It changed my vision of my ..."
• "Up to now I don't know my home country Canada completely, let alone Europe. I ..."
• "We are living in Florida, the whole year it's much warm, often also sultry. "
• "We call him Rene-Charles. I went through labor for 24 hours. And then, Rene took ..."
• "We went through life and death in one day. I'm glad everything happened like it ..."
• "We were lucky that in vitro worked the first time for us. We put three ..."
• "What I am eating I keep in me. "
• "What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in ..."
• "When I first started in this business, people took one look at me and said ..."
• "When I found out it was a boy, Rene started to cry. "
• "When I started in show business, when I turned 18 years old I wanted to ..."
• "When I was pregnant, I was holding my breath for eight months and a week. "
• "When I'm at our house in Florida, I sometimes only wear a swim suit all ..."
• "When I'm dressed I feel great. I can wear everything and never have had a ..."
• "When I'm in naked front of my mirror I'd like to be a little bit ..."
• "When it was time for me to change for the Titanic thing, I used to ..."
• "When it was time for me to perform live, I didn't know how I was ..."
• "When you are a new mother, your body is-you're not in control totally. "
• "When you want a child and you've been trying for six years, and this miracle ..."
• "When you're a singer it's not only to sing and then we try to have ..."
• "While I was pregnant, two things I know for sure. He won't be blond and ..."
• "Yes, man, I love my husband, so when it's time to watch sports I'm right ..."
• "Yesterday, we can't do anything; tomorrow, we don't know. Today. "
• "You don't want to bother people. Too much is too much. If you want to ..."
• "You know, what I want the most right now, of course, my album, my record ..."
• "You shouldn't always think about perfect breasts, a perfect body or a perfect nose. Of ..."
• "You're breast feeding every two hours. Milk is like... end of two valves, like the ..."