Madonna » Quotes

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

“I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.”

“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.”

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

Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

(from her book "Sex") A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

(to David Letterman) Listen, all you do is talk about my sex life on your show, so now you don't want to talk about my sex life when I'm on your show?!

(in Elle magazine, February 2001) Can I just say that I find it really irritating that everyone beats up on Britney Spears? I want to do nothing but support her and praise her and wish her the best. I mean, she's 18 years old! It's just shocking. I was so gawky and geeky and awkward and unsure of myself.

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.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

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

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

I live for meeting with men in suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them, and I know that they know.

I'm like a cockroach - you just can't get rid of me!