Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “If at first you don’t succeed, you’re obviously not me.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

303. “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

304. “And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn’t fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.”

— Madonna

305. “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

306. “I’ve slept with Prince.”

— Madonna

307. “It’s none of your business what people say about you.”

— Madonna

308. “If I have to be the person who opens the door for women to believe and understand and embrace the idea that they can be sexual and look good and be as relevant in their 50s or their 60s as they were in their 20s, then so be it.”

— Madonna

309. “You’re getting angry, you know I can see. You’re just jealous, cause you can’t be me.”

— Madonna

310. “In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don’t get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don’t wear fancy underwear when I’m cooking popcorn. I’m a nice little ducky.”

— Madonna

311. “I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.”

— Madonna

312. “Marriage? I don’t know what I really think about marriage. I’m a bit confused on that issue.”

— Madonna

313. “The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.”

— Madonna

314. “As much as I think I’ve inspired people in the world, I’d like to be more involved bringing about world peace.”

— Madonna

315. “I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can’t be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.”

— Madonna

316. “I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.”

— Madonna

317. “I think in the end, when you’re famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I’ve just become this ambitious, say-whatever’s-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that’s part of my personality, but it’s certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.”

— Madonna

318. “Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn’t feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.”

— Madonna

319. “I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He’s with our son now.”

— Madonna

320. “My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn’t do it either.”

— Madonna

321. “Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.”

— Madonna

322. “Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it’s the best pie. It’s on the menu constantly for both parties.”

— Madonna

323. “Because I’ve taken my clothes off in public doesn’t mean that I’ve revealed every inch of my soul.”

— Madonna

324. “I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.”

— Madonna

325. “When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.”

— Madonna

326. “I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It’s hard for me to relate to that.”

— Madonna

327. “I’m encouraging other people, whether they’re professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.”

— Madonna

328. “Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they’re essential.”

— Madonna

329. “What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.”

— Madonna

330. “In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.”

— Madonna

331. “I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.”

— Madonna

332. “Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.”

— Madonna

333. “Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?”

— Madonna

334. “I don’t doubt love for a second. I’m living for love. Listen to my songs!”

— Madonna

335. “You don’t have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don’t understand is Italian.”

— Madonna

336. “I’d love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I’d like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.”

— Madonna

337. “My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before – it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.”

— Madonna

338. “I don’t affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.”

— Madonna

339. “Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it’s incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life ’cause you can’t really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.”

— Madonna

340. “When you’re writing something and you know it’s good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.”

— Madonna

341. “Brushing my Grilzz Before I Booty Pop. A Woman’s work is never Done!”

— Madonna

342. “Fame gets you in the door but it doesn’t keep you in the room.”

— Madonna

343. “I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.”

— Madonna

344. “Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.”

— Madonna

345. “I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.”

— Madonna

346. “David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He’s brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.”

— Madonna

347. “I don’t have a religion because I don’t like that word religion.”

— Madonna

348. “My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn’t want to be too obvious about it because I’m her mum and it’s not cool.”

— Madonna

349. “I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren’t allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they’re whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know.”

— Madonna

350. “There are moments when I can’t believe I’m as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don’t think, Oh God, I’m missing something.”

— Madonna