Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don’t want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can’t really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

103. “People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.”

— Madonna

104. “I became an overachiever to get approval from the world...”

— Madonna

105. “I suffered fools so gladly.”

— Madonna

106. “Elvis Presley? He’s God.”

— Madonna

107. “I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.”

— Madonna

108. “I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.”

— Madonna

109. “The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

111. “You can be sexy, but you can’t be 50.”

— Madonna

112. “Words are useless, especially sentences.”

— Madonna

113. “Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, ‘Why am I here?’ I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in?”

— Madonna

114. “You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.”

— Madonna

115. “I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.”

— Madonna

116. “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.”

— Madonna

117. “When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love.”

— Madonna

118. “You’re so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.”

— Madonna

119. “Everyone is entitled to my opinion.”

— Madonna

120. “To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.”

— Madonna

121. “That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.”

— Madonna

122. “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

123. “I’m a gay man trapped in a woman’s body.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

127. “Why did God create men? Because vibrators can’t mow the lawn.”

— Madonna

128. “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.”

— Madonna

129. “Power without guilt, love without doubt...”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

131. “In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create – the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.”

— Madonna

132. “Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane – and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, ‘Oh god, everyone’s heard all these demos.’”

— Madonna

133. “A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that’s true. No time to waste.”

— Madonna

134. “Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.”

— Madonna

135. “Rita Haywood gave good face.”

— Madonna

136. “Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.”

— Madonna

137. “We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

— Madonna

138. “It doesn’t matter who you are, it’s what you do that takes you far.”

— Madonna

139. “As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.”

— Madonna

140. “I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.”

— Madonna

141. “I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion.”

— Madonna

142. “I know where beauty lives, I’ve seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.”

— Madonna

143. “I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.”

— Madonna

144. “Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there’s a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it’s possible.”

— Madonna

145. “Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person.”

— Madonna

146. “When I think about popular culture, I can’t help but think that we’re living in the age of loneliness. There’s this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”

— Madonna

147. “We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I’m doing. It’s important for us to support each other.”

— Madonna

148. “The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we’re enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

150. “One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it.”

— Madonna