Madonna Quotes

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

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.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

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.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

Never forget to dream.

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

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.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

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.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way.

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

Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it?