Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Love, Humor

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

Dreams, Freedom, After

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
Madonna Ciccone

Insecurity, Insecure, Biggest

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

Poor, Another, Whose

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Madonna Ciccone

Business, Sexy, Stop

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.
Madonna Ciccone

Wrong, Growing, Felt

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

Alive, Stay, King

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 Ciccone

Love, Work, Live

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

Religion, Painful, Punishment

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

Strength, Art, Powerful

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
Madonna Ciccone

Faith, Work, Care

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
Madonna Ciccone

Human, Remember, Sometimes

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
Madonna Ciccone

Mother, Reason, Learn

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Marriage, Family

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 Ciccone

Good, Worry, Show

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 Ciccone

Heart, Person, Soul

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
Madonna Ciccone

Family, Father, Two

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna Ciccone

Thought, Star, Treated

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

Good, Bad, Made

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
Madonna Ciccone

Spending, Careful, Sale

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
Madonna Ciccone

Space, Wasted, Rooms

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.
Madonna Ciccone

Children, Country, Made

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 Ciccone

School, High, Felt

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy"'or 'What do you think of this?'
Madonna Ciccone

Good, Crazy, Doubt

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Ciccone

Hate, Star, Pop

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Nationality: American

Born: August 16, 1958

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