Madonna Ciccone Quotes

There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.

I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.

With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

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

Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.

Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system.

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.

Nothing really matters; love is all we need.

I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.

I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].

May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.

No Separation! We all bleed the same color! #ceasefire #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.

Looking at my life, it's very clear to me, I lived so selfishly.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

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

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

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

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

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

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

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.

I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.

If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?