Madonna Quotes

“When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.”

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.”

“It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

“One of my all-time favourite poets is Charles Bukowski. I think he's the coolest guy in the world.”

“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.”

“I've always been kind of obsessed with Frida Kahlo, so I was really into the idea of getting something that belonged to her. And then from Frida Kahlo I found out about Tina Modotti and then I started collecting her stuff and Edward Weston, and one person always leads to another person with me, because for me it started with Diego Rivera, then it went to Frida Kahlo, then it went to Tina, and Edward and… Also, if you're into Picasso, and you want to find out about him and that whole area of art and European culture, then you start reading about Man Ray and the surrealists and Andre Breton, and all of a sudden you're in that whole world and you start having interests in other people. It's like a disease.”

“I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn’t know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.”

“I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.”

“I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.”

“I pay attention to what’s going on around me. I’m always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it’s easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it’s been about challenging myself — to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.”

“Every time I do a show, I die a little bit, but no shit is worth doing unless you're willing to die for it.”

“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.”

“Beauty is where you find it.”

“Sick and perverted always appeals to me.”

“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”

“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”

“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.”

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

“Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.”

“Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.”

“Power without guilt, love without doubt….”

“Don’t just stand there let’s get to it. Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.”

“I always thought I should be treated like a star.”

“Only love can last.”

“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.”

“T. G. T. B. T: too good to be true.”

“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”

“We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?”

“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”

“Madonna: "Listen, all you do is talk about my sex life on your show, so now you don't want to talk about my sex life when I'm on your show?!"”

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

“I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.”

“One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal.”

“Now there's no point in placing the blame
And you should know I'd suffer the same”

“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.”

“When I experienced what was going on first hand, I just got sucked into the whole thing. Thank God I did. I met some amazing people and, hopefully, I’ve changed the lives of a lot of children. Just as important, I think it’s been an incredible growing and learning experience for me.”

“The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.”

“I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.”

“I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.”

“Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!”

“Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.”

“Maybe I'm just a gay man inside a woman's body!”

“I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems… you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.”

“One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.”

“It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.”

“Then there are guys who say 'I have never fantasized about being with a man.' They are lying. And the least offensive men I've been with in terms of their sexual politics and how they view me as a woman, have been men who have either slept with men, or at least kissed or held a man once. It opens up your thinking. You don't think that women are less-than you are.”

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

“I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.”

“If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!”

“For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.”

“I wanted to be a boy when I was growing up because I was in love with all of the male dancers I knew and they were all gay. And I thought, Well, if I was a boy, they'd love me. So I got into role-playing then. That's where it began. I remember when I was still in high school, I had cut my hair off really short, and I was totally anorexic - I had no boobs - and I would dress like a boy and go to gay clubs and my goal was to trick men into thinking I was a boy.”

“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. The only problem is going to sleep. But I never take pills… I drink herbal teas.”

“Letterman: "I want to thank you folks for coming out for this run-through show. Thank you very much. This, of course, will never see the light of day. You won't miss a thing tonight."”

“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.”

“I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.”

“No man can have sex with anyone but me and since I don't have that kind of time on my hands, you might as well all be gay!”