Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I’m anal retentive. I’m a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I’m a control freak. That’s why I’m not married. Who could stand me?”

— Madonna

202. “Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it.”

— Madonna

203. “I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty.”

— Madonna

204. “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.”

— Madonna

205. “I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I’m quite scared to take them. I’m a control freak.”

— Madonna

206. “I don’t want no lies, I don’t watch TV. I don’t waste my time, won’t read a magazine.”

— Madonna

207. “I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.”

— Madonna

208. “I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can’t hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.”

— Madonna

209. “Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.”

— Madonna

210. “Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.”

— Madonna

211. “And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now he is smiling about this. Yes, Michael Jackson was a human being but he was a king. Long live the king.”

— Madonna

212. “I am very proud to be Italian.”

— Madonna

213. “I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.”

— Madonna

214. “I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That’s my theory. I could be wrong.”

— Madonna

215. “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.”

— Madonna

216. “That’s what I mean about Catholicism – your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you’re a good Catholic. That’s wrong. It’s human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?”

— Madonna

217. “Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine.”

— Madonna

218. “To me, the most important thing – aside from meeting people’s physical needs, whether that’s education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads – is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.”

— Madonna

219. “I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it’s so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.”

— Madonna

220. “In our house we don’t use words like “despise” and ‘hate,’ we say “strongly dislike.””

— Madonna

221. “People don’t know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying – is just – is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don’t understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.”

— Madonna

222. “At least my cage is filled with light.”

— Madonna

223. “I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it’s good to get into arguments with people and have them say, ‘That sucks’ or ‘You’re crazy’ or ‘That’s cheesy’ or ‘What do you think of this?’”

— Madonna

224. “If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they’re not. They’re not offering a solution.”

— Madonna

225. “My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn’t know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.”

— Madonna

226. “Hurt that’s not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.”

— Madonna

227. “You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.”

— Madonna

228. “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.”

— Madonna

229. “People think they will wake up one day and I’ll be gone. But I’m never going away.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

231. “When you make a movie, it’s just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.”

— Madonna

232. “I’m constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it’s romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.”

— Madonna

233. “I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated – black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they’re all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board.”

— Madonna

234. “Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!”

— Madonna

235. “Looking at my life, it’s very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.”

— Madonna

236. “A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.”

— Madonna

237. “Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.”

— Madonna

238. “I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.”

— Madonna

239. “I don’t trust any man who hasn’t kissed another man.”

— Madonna

240. “I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you’ll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.”

— Madonna

241. “Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you’re happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important.”

— Madonna

242. “The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That’s nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don’t read reviews.”

— Madonna

243. “I’ve always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that’s the way it goes. I’m five-foot four-and-a-half-inches – that’s actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything’s normal, in the books. It’s the things inside me that make me not average.”

— Madonna

244. “Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn’t keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I’ve lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.”

— Madonna

245. “I feel like I’ve survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.”

— Madonna

246. “I am the result of the good choices I’ve made and the bad choices.”

— Madonna

247. “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.”

— Madonna

248. “Sexism – you can’t be sexy and intelligent. It’s not allowed.”

— Madonna

249. “When you make a movie, it seems like there’s nothing but resistance. It’s kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.”

— Madonna

250. “I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around – the stillness of my body, physically – that would be the challenge.”

— Madonna