Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 5 of 10

201. “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

202. “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

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

— Madonna

204. “It’s weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit.”

— Madonna

205. “We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don’t live at all.”

— Madonna

206. “I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do.”

— Madonna

207. “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

208. “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

209. “I don’t think about my old stuff. I just move forward.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Madonna

216. “I am very proud to be Italian.”

— Madonna

217. “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

218. “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

219. “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

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

— Madonna

221. “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

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

— Madonna

223. “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

224. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

227. “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

228. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

231. “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

232. “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

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

— Madonna

234. “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

235. “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

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

— Madonna

237. “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

238. “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

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

— Madonna

240. “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

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

— Madonna

242. “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

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

— Madonna

244. “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

245. “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

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

— Madonna

247. “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

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

— Madonna

249. “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

250. “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