"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore"
About this Quote
Newton-John spent decades cast as radiance - the wholesome pop star, the movie-era icon, the woman expected to be easy to like. But her real public narrative, especially later, was endurance: recurring cancer, treatment, and advocacy. In that light, the quote feels like an act of reclamation. She isn't denying pain; she's shrinking fear's jurisdiction. Intimidation is what the world does to you - fame, diagnosis, other people's expectations. Saying it no longer works is a quiet refusal to be managed.
The line also sidesteps the modern self-help performance of confidence. There's no brandable mantra about "winning". Instead, she offers a mature defiance: affection for being alive paired with the hard-earned knowledge that worst-case scenarios can be survived. It's not naive optimism; it's a recalibrated scale of what matters, spoken by someone who has already met the monster and learned its true size.
Quote Details
| Topic | Life |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Newton-John, Olivia. (2026, January 16). I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/
Chicago Style
Newton-John, Olivia. "I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








