Top 100 Madonna's Quotes
#1. It's a stage name," said Arthur, impatiently. "Like Madonna."
"No, Madonna's actual name is Madonna," pointed out Merlin.
"Oh my God, stop flaunting your Big Gay Knowledge Of Pop,
FayJay
#2. Do I think Photoshop is being used excessively? Yes. I saw Madonna's Louis Vuitton ad and honestly, at first glance, I thought it was Gwen Stefani's baby.
Tina Fey
#3. Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.
Camille Paglia
#4. I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.
Natalia Kills
#5. I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
Dennis Rodman
#6. At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
Amy Winehouse
#7. The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!
Elisha Cuthbert
#8. Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
Salma Hayek
#9. I've probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a park, to, like, Madonna's house, to a rave in Africa.
Diplo
#10. I was just going over London Bridge and I saw someone had attacked the Madonna's statue. Knocked off the baby's head.'
'That was done a while back. It would be that devil Cranmer. You know what he is when he's taken a drink.
Hilary Mantel
#11. I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
La India
#12. Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.
Dan Jenkins
#13. He's hopeless," sighs Suze. "You know, he can name about a hundred breeds of sheep but not one of Madonna's husbands.
Sophie Kinsella
#14. I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.
Cathy Freeman
#15. Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
Camille Paglia
#16. Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
Peter Hook
#17. This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)
Uri Orbach
#18. Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.
Guy Oseary
#19. When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you ... I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.
Florence Welch
#20. One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
Taylor Swift
#21. I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Campaign playing Madonna's son, which was just an incredible experience and I still can't believe actually happened.
Max Schneider
#22. I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.
Rod Stewart
#23. The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
Lykke Li
#24. Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about 'Express Yourself,' and she's turned Madonna's fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, 'Born This Way.'
Rob Sheffield
#25. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."
Madonna Ciccone
#26. Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.
Madonna Ciccone
#27. I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.
Madonna Ciccone
#28. When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.
Louise Rennison
#29. I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.
Madonna Ciccone
#30. I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
Madonna Ciccone
#31. They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.
Bill Maher
#32. I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.
Madonna Ciccone
#33. The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!
Madonna Ciccone
#35. People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
Madonna Ciccone
#36. When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
Jo Nesbo
#37. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.
Shannon Drury
#38. Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.
Madonna Kolbenschlag
#39. A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.
Bill Maher
#40. I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.
Madonna Ciccone
#41. Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.
Madonna Ciccone
#42. Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.
Madonna Ciccone
#43. Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.
Madonna Ciccone
#44. We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.
Madonna Ciccone
#45. Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
Nile Rodgers
#46. I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.
Madonna Ciccone
#47. Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna
to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.
Christina Stead
#48. Don't expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she's not the best singer in the world, but she's got where she has through hard work.
Rick Astley
#49. People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
Madonna Ciccone
#50. Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.
Madonna Ciccone
#51. I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.
Madonna Ciccone
#52. When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
Lykke Li
#53. I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.
Madonna Ciccone
#54. My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna Ciccone
#55. Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.
Madonna Ciccone
#56. I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.
Cyndi Lauper
#57. Straight men need to be emasculated ... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.
Madonna Ciccone
#58. I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
Madonna Ciccone
#59. Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.
Madonna Ciccone
#60. I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.
Madonna Ciccone
#61. Madonna looked amazing. I can't believe she's 89 and looks like that.
Robbie Williams
#62. When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou?
Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death.
Clown:I think his soul is in hell, Madonna.
Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.
Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven.
William Shakespeare
#65. I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
Madonna Ciccone
#66. I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.
Madonna Ciccone
#67. I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.
Madonna Ciccone
#68. I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison.
Madonna Ciccone
#70. Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.
Madonna Ciccone
#71. That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.
Darren Hayes
#72. I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.
Annette Bening
#73. Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.
Tracy Anderson
#74. Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do
Madonna Ciccone
#75. Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is.
Madonna Ciccone
#76. I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
Guy Ritchie
#77. Don't just stand there let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it.
Madonna
#78. What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#79. It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen ... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.
Paul Reubens
#80. I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.
Lindsay Lohan
#81. Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
Madonna Ciccone
#82. Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.
Greg Gutfeld
#83. My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
Aaron Ruell
#84. I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.
Madonna Ciccone
#85. All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.
Andrea Tantaros
#86. There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.
Madonna Ciccone
#87. There's no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you think they're perfect, you better run as fast as you can in the other direction. 'Cos your soulmate is the person that pushes all your buttons, pisses you off on a regular basis, and makes you face your shit.
Madonna
#88. The definition of S & M is letting someone hurt you that you know would never hurt you.
Madonna Ciccone
#89. But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
Abbey Lincoln
#90. I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.
Madonna Ciccone
#91. Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.
Madonna Ciccone
#92. I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
Carole King
#93. I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.
Madonna Ciccone
#94. There's no law that says that you cannot be a spiritual person and a sexual person. In fact, if you have the right consciousness, sex is like a prayer. It can be a divine experience. So why do they have to be disassociated with one another?
Madonna Ciccone
#95. I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#96. I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.
Katy Perry
#97. We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.
Madonna Ciccone
#98. All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.
Madonna Ciccone
#99. I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest.
Madonna Ciccone
#100. Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
Madonna
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