Top 450 Madonna Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “There’s one thing you can’t download and that’s a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I’ll always have that.”

— Madonna

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Madonna

406. “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

407. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

410. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

413. “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

414. “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

415. “I guess I like to have fun.”

— Madonna

416. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

423. “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

424. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

427. “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

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

— Madonna

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

434. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

439. “Only love can last.”

— Madonna

440. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

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

— Madonna

444. “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

445. “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

446. “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

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

— Madonna

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

— 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