Ciccone Quotes & Sayings

We live in a reasonable world which tells us the incredible is impossible. — Kirkland Ciccone

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

I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general. — Madonna Ciccone

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present. — Madonna Ciccone

Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove — Madonna Ciccone

I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that. — Madonna Ciccone

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. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star. — Madonna Ciccone

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

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs. — Madonna Ciccone

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day. — Madonna Ciccone

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me. — Madonna Ciccone

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know. — Madonna Ciccone

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

Are you ready boots? Start Walking ... never look back. # artforfreedom # revolutionoflove — Madonna Ciccone

Music ... makes the people ... come together ... — Madonna Ciccone

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

My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite. — Madonna Ciccone

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field. — Madonna Ciccone

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant. — Madonna Ciccone

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter. — Madonna Ciccone

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see. — Madonna Ciccone

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult — Madonna Ciccone

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

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne. — Madonna Ciccone

The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work. — Madonna Ciccone

We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs! — Madonna Ciccone

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones. — Madonna Ciccone

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant. — Madonna Ciccone

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do — Madonna Ciccone

For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality. — Madonna Ciccone

New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love — Madonna Ciccone

One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom — Madonna Ciccone

It takes a Real man to fill my shoes. — Madonna Ciccone

The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds. — Madonna Ciccone

Give me back my dead cow! — Kirkland Ciccone

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star. I didn't know anybody. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to do all those things. I wanted to make people happy. I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true. — Madonna Ciccone

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does. — Madonna Ciccone

I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously. — Madonna Ciccone

I am very proud to be Italian. — Madonna Ciccone

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated - black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board. — Madonna Ciccone

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. — Madonna Ciccone

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey. — Madonna Ciccone

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

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think. — Madonna Ciccone

I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart — Madonna Ciccone

Express yourself, don't repress yourself. — Madonna Ciccone

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going. — Madonna Ciccone

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die? — Madonna Ciccone

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. — Madonna Ciccone

I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something. — Madonna Ciccone

If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking. — Madonna Ciccone

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check. — Madonna Ciccone

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray. — Madonna Ciccone

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

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that. — Madonna Ciccone

I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work. — Madonna Ciccone

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

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

I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally. — Madonna Ciccone

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. — Madonna Ciccone

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal. — Madonna Ciccone

You'll always be two steps behind me. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

It's not my nature to just kick back. — Madonna Ciccone

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say. — Madonna Ciccone

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did. — Madonna Ciccone

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me. — Madonna Ciccone

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront. — Madonna Ciccone

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 Ciccone

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me. — Madonna Ciccone

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives. — Madonna Ciccone

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be? — Madonna Ciccone

I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces. — Madonna Ciccone

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret. — Madonna Ciccone

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding. — Madonna Ciccone

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit. — Madonna Ciccone

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff. — Madonna Ciccone

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 — Madonna Ciccone

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force. — Madonna Ciccone

I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular. — Madonna Ciccone

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential. — Madonna Ciccone

Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed. — Madonna Ciccone

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test. — Madonna Ciccone

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. — Madonna Ciccone

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam. — Madonna Ciccone

My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre. — Madonna Ciccone

Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room. — Madonna Ciccone