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Celine Speaks: "Now I got the chance.... I talk, yeah I talk and I don't stop!"
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• "My voice is the quickest, closest path between what I feel inside me-my emotions, my soul, my thoughts and dreams-and the world outside. I have no other reason for living, no other goal, no other happiness."
• "Sometimes I picture myself….Not that I’m sad. I’m just infinitely and incurably alone. I can feel it. There’s no one around…   There’s no music. Nothing but the peaceful silence that I’ll never break."
• "I owe a lot to Karine. Though she didn’t know it, she opened my eyes to many things. She made me realize how much suffering and pain there can be  in the world, and how much of it is unfair."
• "I learned early on to be polite and kind to people. My parents taught me that, and so did everyone I worked with..   It’s part of my nature now."
• "There nothing like a crowd on their feet to make a show really take off.."
• "Today I feel good. I feel my voice close to me. Usually, when I have my period, it’s not that clear, or that’s how it sounds to me. Some days my voice is dull. It doesn’t want to listen to me or answer when I call it. It tries to get away from me . When that happens, I go into a room with it and lock the door…  I talk to my voice, I struggle with it, I pamper, I caress it, and in the end, it always listens to me."
• "But in a business like ours, you can’t have two captains of a ship."
• "I’m on the roof of a very tall building… I leap over the edge. I fall for what seems like an eternity. Beneath me the city is empty. No one watches me fall. I go on falling forever. I try to scream, but no sounds comes out of my mouth. I always wake up before I hit the ground. At first the dream terrified me. Now it intrigues me instead, I wonder what it means."
• "I used to have another dream..  I flew. I was with my brothers and my sisters, my mother and my father. ..  Then, I realized I was flying. I told them to come with me, but they just looked at me. They were growing smaller and smaller. They weren’t following me, I was all alone, very high in the sky and I was very cold. I called to my brothers and sisters, but no one heard my voice, not even me. That’s because I had no voice anymore."
• "My husband needs stress because he loves power. The only way I can fight bad stress is by staying in good shape, and watching what I eat, and protecting myself, saving my strength and praying…because there are some things that even Rene can have no power over."
• "I want to please people. I reach out to them, I charm them, I act like the easiest person in the world to get along with. Sometimes I wonder why. Some of them aren’t even very nice. But I want them to love me. I smile and I make them laugh. That’s part of my job, and I do the best way I know how."
• "I guess I was born under a lucky star."
• "I never thought school was very important."
•  "I’d like to talk about the things we share. I think that’s much more interesting than a star’s life. And I think that’s what people like."
• "Everyday I do my twenty minutes of vocal exercises, I sleep a lot, I never go to clubs. Singers are like athletes, they have to work out everyday to keep their vocal cords in shape."
• "Sometimes I wonder if you stop dreaming when you get old, just like you stop wanting to make love. …Rene is still a dreamer. He wants me to sing in Moscow, in Capetown, in Rio, in Beirut, in Bombay. I tell him he’s thinking like a conqueror. …what’ll happen when I’ve sung just about everywhere in the world?  Is he going to send me to mars, maybe?"
• "When I’m singing I’m in control 200%. I do what I want. I don’t have the same freedom anywhere else. Sometimes I wonder what I should do in real life. …  On stage I always know."
• "When I cry, I cry for real. When I touch, it’s because I want to feel, because I need it or because I want to give somebody pleasure."
• "After a few hours without speaking, everything seems to be moving in slow motion. You start thinking of stories. …   I became a great pianist, I wrote songs, novels, scripts, I had all kinds of ideas. The things that I have in my heart and that  come out through my voice just took another path."
• "I’ve invested my whole life into my career. I’ve sacrificed a lot. But I’m not in it for the applause. I couldn’t live any other way."
• "It’s not just a sense of deja-vu I get, but one of  "must-see again." I’ll see these landscapes again, because when I look at them, I see myself as a lonely old woman."
• "The challenge isn’t to sing the song, control my breathing, to push the notes, but to put my heart and soul into it. Some nights I feel distraught, my heart feels cold. I get energy  by generating the heat it takes to really get into each of my songs…"
• "My father is my father and I’ve only got one. He protects me, encourages, he loves me and I love him. Rene is my heart. He’s the only one who makes it beat.
• I’ve got a treasure that’s mine alone. I’m ready to share everything else. But, not that."
• "If I’m Celine Dion today, admired and respected by millions of people, I owe it all to him.
• "I know I’ll waste away because I’m likely to witness the death of all the people I love. I’m the youngest. I could lose them all, one by one. I’ll be like a daisy with its petals plucked. Those people are my petals."
• "Singing is what I love best, and the thing that scares me the most. When I’m feeling good, it’s like nothing can touch me. But some nights, it’s a struggle, against myself, against fear."
• "That’s one of the greatest mysteries of life: What makes happy people and unhappy people different. It’s got nothing to do with the quality of a person it’s simply a matter of luck It’s pure luck."
• "My life is a fairy tale and I know it. … But  I know I live in a frightening world where thousands of children die of hunger every day."
• "When my period is late, I hope I’ll wake up with morning sickness. … I see myself telling Rene I’m pregnant. For the longest time, I was sure I would have a daughter. I could see it all clearly. She comes and sees me on stage as I’m singing. Then I bend down and she jumps into my  arms. But, for the last little while, I picture a boy. …  I go shopping with him, buy him clothing. But he’s independent. And whenever he goes away, it breaks my heart."
• "When I sing I get extraordinary physical pleasure. …   For me,  singing is as simple as breathing. It’s my whole life."
• "My mouth is too small. My lips are too thin, my nose is too large. One of my eyebrows is thicker and lower than the other. I wish I had a squarer face, teeth like Chiclets and bigger breasts. I like my hair, my legs. I hear I’ve got a nice back too."
• "I’d like to have full control of my body, my face, my image, in every part of my  life right till the end."
• "One day a journalist ask what I would like God to say when I went to Heaven. I told him that the only thing I wanted was for him to look at me like my mother does, without a word. And for his eye’s to tell me that everything is better than perfect. And for Him to  tell me, "I’m proud of you, my child."
• "I know that sometimes the things I want to wear surprise  him, or even shock him. We’ve had plenty of arguments about my dresses or hairstyles. I’ve finally learned how to stand up to him. I know him. He’ll end up liking what I’ve made up my mind to wear. And when Rene likes what I’m wearing, I’m happy."
• "I don’t believe in competition. Every singer has her own voice."
• "That’s what they call it. The empire that Celine Dion rules." "Sometimes I get the feeling the empire’s ruling me."
• "When you get right down to it, dreams can carry you, if you’ve already got what it takes to succeed. …  I had everything I needed. … I was born under a lucky star. But I had a dream of my own.  …  I can say that I dreamed of my own glory."
• "I dreamed I swallowed an apple and it got stuck in my throat, in my esophogus. It happened to me when I was a little girl and it scared the daylights out of me. Then, I dreamed someone hit me in the chest. I woke up with this shooting pain over my breastbone. And it got worse. I was alone. Awake for hours. My mind was going around and around. Everything seemed dangerous to me. Then I stopped thinking. I was hurting. I was afraid. I couldn’t eat. For a day or two, sometimes three, I couldn’t feel my weight. But I could feel a kind of bruise inside of me. And it would come back in the middle of the night. Did you ever see Alien with Sigourney Weaver/ The monster gets inside of people, don’t ask me how. And it grows and grows. Then suddenly it bursts out of them. That’s the way I felt."
• "For me resting and being inactive cause stress. I’m like my mother. I’ve got to find a balance between stress and rest."
• "Rene, instead of looking for more ways to make me work, why don’t you come up with something to entertain me while I’m taking my year off." "I’ll go where you go, you’ll be the place I call home."
• "That’s what you always say Rene. If you’re so smart, why don’t you fix it so you’re a journalist in your next life?"
• "You’re hiding things from me my love."
• "We never really talked about it. That’s what’s so wonderful about Rene. He makes up his mind, he organizes, he does it. He knows what I really want. He knows what I’m looking for."
• "As long as I believed that my brothers and sisters were living in harmony, I could imagine that peace in the world was possible. Singing love songs in a world of war and want, that takes an awful lot of energy."
• "A lot of the time when I’m alone I take refuge in a dream."
• "I used to let them go ahead. I was like soft clay, easy to mold. But, slowly I’m learning to say no. Sure, I’m still afraid of  hurting people."
• "My life is my reward. It’s a marvelous life, and scary too,  when you realize that you’ve done more than you ever hoped or dreamed you would."
• "No wants to live without idols and  without dreams. Including me. I wouldn’t do it for anything in the world."
• "I have remained in love with Rene like on the first day, in love with music, and in love with life. This is without a doubt my greatest luck and my finest achievement: to make life new every day. And to have enduring passions, friendships and loves."
• "So please read about my romance with my husband-and my romance with my audience. My love of singing and my love of the simple things in life.. My love/hate relationaionship with the stage. And my deep affection for the "family’ that travels with me on tour. You will see yourself in the story too, as you are when I sing on stage in front of you." "You know I sing for you, and that you are part of my family."

-TheCeline Screen | Email:The Celine Screen