Madonna Ciccone Quotes

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.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

The next time you want pussy, just look in the mirror baby

Happiness lies in your own hand

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church.

If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

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.

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

Just because I'm presented life in a certain way doesn't mean I do all these things. It's just something I choose to express.

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Say hello to your life.

I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire

Never forget to dream.

Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

They're only words, unless they're true.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

I don't think I have to introduce myself, unless you don't recognize me with my clothes on.

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

Being loved keeps you young.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world ...

You're frozen when your heart's not open

Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Never forget who you are, little star.

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.

Its boring not to take risks

There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create ...

You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game

I always acted like a star long before I was one

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

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.

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.

Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room.

Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! #rebelheart

In the midnight hour, I can feel your power.

Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman's work is never Done!

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.