Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “As an artist myself, I know what it’s like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.”

— Madonna

402. “What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I’ve succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.”

— Madonna

403. “I can’t stand when I walk into a room and everyone’s not talking to each other and just on their phones.”

— Madonna

404. “There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It’s about 20 steps away.”

— Madonna

405. “Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.”

— Madonna

406. “I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.”

— Madonna

407. “When you’re 25, it’s a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.”

— Madonna

408. “Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don’t have to embrace themselves. If you can’t feel, you can’t embrace.”

— Madonna

409. “I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.”

— Madonna

410. “A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don’t worry about that.”

— Madonna

411. “I guess I like to have fun.”

— Madonna

412. “I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.”

— Madonna

413. “There’s always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don’t feel scared there at all.”

— Madonna

414. “You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn’t the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don’t have a problem with it.”

— Madonna

415. “We’re in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.”

— Madonna

416. “I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don’t think I ever had before.”

— Madonna

417. “I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don’t speak – like, silence for five days.”

— Madonna

418. “It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.”

— Madonna

419. “I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.”

— Madonna

420. “Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don’t want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.”

— Madonna

421. “Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!”

— Madonna

422. “The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.”

— Madonna

423. “I think they were scared of me because I was different.”

— Madonna

424. “Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I’m totally in control.”

— Madonna

425. “If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don’t skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.”

— Madonna

426. “The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.”

— Madonna

427. “If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!”

— Madonna

428. “I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.”

— Madonna

429. “Being poor in Africa is something people in America can’t relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.”

— Madonna

430. “I’m very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.”

— Madonna

431. “When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.”

— Madonna

432. “Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.”

— Madonna

433. “I really want to see everything. If it’s around me and it’s part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone’s hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!”

— Madonna

434. “You have to be patient. I’m not!”

— Madonna

435. “I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That’s when I was married.”

— Madonna

436. “Everyone who knows me thinks I’m a bit of a work Nazi.”

— Madonna

437. “Before doing any interviews I like to know who I’m meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.”

— Madonna

438. “People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.”

— Madonna

439. “I don’t go to the sale rack. But I wouldn’t say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.”

— Madonna

440. “Only love can last.”

— Madonna

441. “Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.”

— Madonna

442. “But I love the idea – whether it’s in my work or where I live – exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.”

— Madonna

443. “I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.”

— Madonna

444. “I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.”

— Madonna

445. “Just because I’m presented life in a certain way doesn’t mean I do all these things. It’s just something I choose to express.”

— Madonna

446. “I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.”

— Madonna

447. “I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.”

— Madonna

448. “I’m sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.”

— Madonna

449. “I get strength from my art – all the paintings I own are powerful.”

— Madonna

450. “This is who I am like it or not.”

— Madonna