Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “My nature is to provoke, that’s true. I can’t help myself. But it’s always with good intentions.”

— Madonna

252. “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

253. “To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else’s painting is a little difficult.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

256. “I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.”

— Madonna

257. “Nothing lasts forever. Should I?”

— Madonna

258. “People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It’s unforgivable.”

— Madonna

259. “I wouldn’t live in Chicago cause it’s too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.”

— Madonna

260. “It’s not my nature to just kick back.”

— Madonna

261. “Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn’t care about anything but boyfriends.”

— Madonna

262. “Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They’re not threatened by strong women, and they’re usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I’ve always had an affinity with gay men.”

— Madonna

263. “We’re very privileged as Americans – it’s easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.”

— Madonna

264. “I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.”

— Madonna

265. “I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street – just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.”

— Madonna

266. “I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.”

— Madonna

267. “Say hello to your life.”

— Madonna

268. “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.”

— Madonna

269. “I’ve always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn’t a lot that felt personal.”

— Madonna

270. “There is something comforting about being tied up. Like when you were a baby and your mother strapped you in the car seat. She wanted you to be safe. It was an act of love.”

— Madonna

271. “I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.”

— Madonna

272. “I think that its an artist’s responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.”

— Madonna

273. “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.”

— Madonna

274. “I’ve been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.”

— Madonna

275. “Do everything you’re told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, ‘It’s not so bad.’ Say ‘You are almost there!’ And say it a lot.”

— Madonna

276. “Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I’ll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.”

— Madonna

277. “Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.”

— Madonna

278. “I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?”

— Madonna

279. “When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I’ve always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.”

— Madonna

280. “I’ve always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.”

— Madonna

281. “I don’t think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it’s our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.”

— Madonna

282. “My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me – to stand up to me with compassion.”

— Madonna

283. “My son youngest son David’s favorite song – he plays guitar – and he likes “Devil Pray.” That’s his favorite.”

— Madonna

284. “Jean-Baptiste Mondino: “She’s John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time”.”

— Madonna

285. “Isn’t it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?”

— Madonna

286. “They’re only words, unless they’re true.”

— Madonna

287. “I’m not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I’m not trying to. I’m doing what I want to do.”

— Madonna

288. “On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.”

— Madonna

289. “My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.”

— Madonna

290. “I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn’t care, I was free.”

— Madonna

291. “Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her.”

— Madonna

292. “My home base – pop music and the Catholic Church.”

— Madonna

293. “I shouldn’t have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.”

— Madonna

294. “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.”

— Madonna

295. “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re obviously not me.”

— Madonna

296. “I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.”

— Madonna

297. “Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we’re all here, it’s what we should all be doing if we can.”

— Madonna

298. “The one thing I don’t understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It’s fascinating.”

— Madonna

299. “In England especially, I’ve found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it’s like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.”

— Madonna

300. “My daughter’s birth was like a rebirth for me.”

— Madonna