Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I am very proud to be Italian.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.

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.

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.

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.

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.

Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.

Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

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

Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes.

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

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.

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body!

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

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.

Today I decided to sing in my underwear! No one seemed to mind! #loveyoufromtheinsideout. #artforfreedom

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

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

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.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

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

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

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

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

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.

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.

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.