Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He’s brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.”

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

353. “Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.”

— Madonna

354. “There isn’t a performer on earth that isn’t an exhibitionist. There isn’t any point in being in this business if you’re not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.”

— Madonna

355. “I’ve read a couple of reviews that say I’m getting harder in my old age but I don’t think that’s true at all. I think that you can’t help but become a little cynical about life and love but I’m still a romantic, I’m still an idealist.”

— Madonna

356. “I’m ambitious. But if I weren’t as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.”

— Madonna

357. “Go down where all life begins, go down that’s where my love is.”

— Madonna

358. “I’d like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.”

— Madonna

359. “Being loved keeps you young.”

— Madonna

360. “If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.”

— Madonna

361. “I know there’s a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.”

— Madonna

362. “If you’re going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.”

— Madonna

363. “Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.”

— Madonna

364. “Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can’t really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.”

— Madonna

365. “One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren’t willing to fight for what you believe in, then don’t even enter the ring.”

— Madonna

366. “Honestly, I don’t read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They’re just not part of my lexicon. I don’t want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people’s work.”

— Madonna

367. “I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.”

— Madonna

368. “Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.”

— Madonna

369. “I don’t know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.”

— Madonna

370. “I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t fit in anywhere.”

— Madonna

371. “Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.”

— Madonna

372. “Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn’t find him stiff at all.”

— Madonna

373. “I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.”

— Madonna

374. “After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn’t.”

— Madonna

375. “On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.”

— Madonna

376. “My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, we put them in a trash bag. She has to earn them back by being tidy. I’m a disciplinarian. Guy’s the spoiler.”

— Madonna

377. “The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that’s going to change any minds.”

— Madonna

378. “Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.”

— Madonna

379. “I’m not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.”

— Madonna

380. “For me, it’s all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It’s almost like you have to be in a prison.”

— Madonna

381. “I always thought I should be treated like a star.”

— Madonna

382. “I’m not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.”

— Madonna

383. “Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children’s books and come back to music.”

— Madonna

384. “I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.”

— Madonna

385. “I don’t even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself – I’m working on that.”

— Madonna

386. “People love pitting strong females against each other.”

— Madonna

387. “If you’re sure of who you are it doesn’t really matter what people call you, does it?”

— Madonna

388. “I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That’s what I want to do.”

— Madonna

389. “If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.”

— Madonna

390. “I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I’m on this planet.”

— Madonna

391. “And I feel faster than the speeding light.”

— Madonna

392. “I’m attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.”

— Madonna

393. “Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it’s informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.”

— Madonna

394. “You didn’t understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.”

— Madonna

395. “I’m not a reluctant pop star. I’m very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I’ve had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn’t, I will survive that and life goes on.”

— Madonna

396. “I don’t like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.”

— Madonna

397. “I’m not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it’s just what’s played on the radio sounds very much the same.”

— Madonna

398. “I think they were scared of me because I was different. I’ve always asked, ‘Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?’”

— Madonna

399. “I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.”

— Madonna

400. “If I can’t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don’t really see the point of being on this planet.”

— Madonna