Olivia Newton-John Quotes

Let me hear your body talk.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

Family, nature and health all go together.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.

We women should remember that we are much more than just breasts.

I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.

Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

I live my life in gratitude.

I am not embarrassed to say that when I was at my worst I took anti-depressants because I think people need to hear that. I think if you are in a dark place where you can't pull yourself out, you may need to ask for help.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across.

I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

I love you. I honestly love you.

I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

A lot of people lose a sense of reality when they achieve success. That's a terrible danger because you have to remember who you were and who you are basically and that you're still a person and all that out there is a kin of magic - what people see out there is magic, it's media magic. It's not very real and it's very glamorous, but you have to keep a sense of you through it all.

Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.

As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

I just wanna do my music.

When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you have something that isn't right, the earlier you treat it the easier the treatment is going to be. That's kind of common sense.