Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “One thing I’ve learned is that I’m not the owner of my talent; I’m the manager of it.”

— Madonna

152. “In the midnight hour, I can feel your power.”

— Madonna

153. “Fame is a by-product. It’s not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do.”

— Madonna

154. “The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you’re constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.”

— Madonna

155. “People who listen to them properly don’t underestimate them. Unfortunately, there’s so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.”

— Madonna

156. “Fame is a form of misunderstanding.”

— Madonna

157. “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.”

— Madonna

158. “Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you’re here.”

— Madonna

159. “Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.”

— Madonna

160. “It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they’ve never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don’t have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.”

— Madonna

161. “I don’t think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.”

— Madonna

162. “When I’m dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.”

— Madonna

163. “I see a huge paradox in me – the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.”

— Madonna

164. “There’s no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create...”

— Madonna

165. “I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we’re going to change people when we get together. But we’re not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.”

— Madonna

166. “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

167. “With every breath, I’m deeper in you.”

— Madonna

168. “The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

170. “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.”

— Madonna

171. “Losing my virginity was a career move.”

— Madonna

172. “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.”

— Madonna

173. “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.”

— Madonna

174. “I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

176. “It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.”

— Madonna

177. “I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It’s about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.”

— Madonna

178. “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.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

180. “Hey you! Don’t be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!”

— Madonna

181. “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

182. “I don’t care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

184. “I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”

— Madonna

185. “I’m so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I’ve been told I have no talent, I can’t sing and I’m a one-hit wonder.”

— Madonna

186. “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

187. “And I’ll remember the love that you gave me, now that I am standing on my own, I’ll remember the way that you changed me, I’ll remember.”

— Madonna

188. “I don’t give a damn if I go to hell.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

190. “My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.”

— Madonna

191. “I’ve gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I’ve always had a core of fans who’ve stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

193. “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

194. “You bring me to my knees, while I’m scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.”

— Madonna

195. “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

196. “I know I’m not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn’t interest me, I’m interested in being provocative and pushing people’s buttons.”

— Madonna

197. “With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.”

— Madonna

198. “My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!”

— Madonna

199. “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.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna