Top 100 Quotes About Madonna
#1. 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
#2. The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.
Russell Howard
#3. Real men won't ever do any of the following: Wear pinky rings Sing along to Madonna Cry during the Bachelorette Wear a man bun Go to Pilates class Wear speedos
Manly M. Mann
#5. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#6. The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.
Madonna Ciccone
#7. I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. 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
#10. I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
Madonna Ciccone
#11. I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
Madonna Ciccone
#12. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
Madi Diaz
#13. Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high!
Susan Seidelman
#14. I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.
Madonna Ciccone
#15. 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
#16. Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.
Madonna Ciccone
#17. Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella
Nicki Minaj
#18. I want to be the black Madonna.
Rihanna
#19. 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
#20. I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.
Madonna Ciccone
#21. Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.
Madonna Ciccone
#22. I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Ciccone
#23. Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine.
Madonna Ciccone
#24. There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.
Madonna Ciccone
#25. Fame is a form of misunderstanding.
Madonna
#26. 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
#27. I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.
Madonna Ciccone
#28. I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.
Marina And The Diamonds
#30. David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
Anthony Edwards
#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
#33. I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.
Madonna Ciccone
#34. 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
#35. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
Madonna Ciccone
#36. Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!
Madonna Ciccone
#37. I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Ciccone
#38. I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.
Madonna Ciccone
#39. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
Madonna Ciccone
#40. I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
Madonna Ciccone
#41. Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#42. If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.
Madonna Ciccone
#43. 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
#44. People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
Madonna Ciccone
#45. One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
Madonna Ciccone
#47. 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
#48. Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
Madonna
#49. Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Ciccone
#50. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
#51. I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.
Madonna Ciccone
#52. I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
Madonna Ciccone
#53. Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.
Madonna Ciccone
#54. Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
Madonna Ciccone
#55. Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.
Madonna Ciccone
#56. Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.
Madonna Ciccone
#57. People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.
Madonna Ciccone
#58. When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna ...
W. Ann Reynolds
#59. I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
Concha Buika
#61. I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture.
Madonna Ciccone
#62. 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
#63. Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
Tipper Gore
#64. I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers ... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!
Oksana Baiul
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
Madonna
#68. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
Randy Newman
#70. Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.
Camille Paglia
#71. I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.
Madonna Ciccone
#72. 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
#73. Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.
Madonna Ciccone
#74. I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.
Madonna Ciccone
#75. Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
Morrissey
#76. It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
Madonna
#78. I was amazing," Dwayne squealed triumphantly as he landed gracefully in the middle of the room. "I did the meld and they bubbled and turned a lovely bluish-orange-green and then BOOM! The sound was incredible. Absolutely fabulous - like fornicating cats and Madonna.
Robyn Peterman
#79. Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.
Pat Boone
#80. My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.
Madonna Ciccone
#81. It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
Madonna Ciccone
#82. Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.
Lois Lowry
#83. Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.
Madonna Ciccone
#84. I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
Dolly Parton
#85. We all walked down the street together, looking like a sort of pick-and-mix adopted family: dad, disabled mum, and two differently mixed-race kids. Madonna would have been so proud of us.
J.L. Merrow
#86. Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.
Madonna Ciccone
#87. Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
Camille Paglia
#89. Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.
Madonna Ciccone
#90. One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own authority.
Sue Monk Kidd
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
Nile Rodgers
#94. Say goodbye to yesterday ... those are the words I'll never say.
Madonna Ciccone
#95. I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
Madonna Ciccone
#96. Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#97. 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
#98. Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
Boy George
#99. When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
Adam Lambert
#100. I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.
Madonna Ciccone
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