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I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

Madonna Ciccone
Memorable, People, Feelings

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
People, Suffering, World
Source: www.foxnews.com

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].

Madonna Ciccone
Gay, Caring, Thinking
"The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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

Madonna Ciccone
Envelopes, Sake, Pushing
Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

Madonna Ciccone
Scary, Should, Should I
Source: www.foxnews.com

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

Madonna Ciccone
Hate, House, Despise
"The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

Madonna Ciccone
Dream, Thinking, Dancing
"Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

Madonna Ciccone
Letting Go, People, Collaboration
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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.

Madonna Ciccone
Ambition, People, Giving

A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

Madonna Ciccone
Gay, Men, Thinking

I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

Madonna Ciccone
Moving, Thinking, Space
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Madonna Ciccone
Thinking, Dying, Sitting

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.

Madonna Ciccone
Ideas, People, Creative
"Madonna, Only More So". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 1, 1998.

I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.

Madonna Ciccone
Men, Thinking, Views
"Madonna: The Director's Cut". Interview with Naomi Wolf, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 9, 2011.

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.

Madonna Ciccone
Writing, People, Stories
"Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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
Believe, Practice, Islam
Source: www.independent.ie

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

Madonna Ciccone
Believe, Yoga, Years
Source: articles.latimes.com

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

Madonna Ciccone
Crazy, Sound, Radio
Source: www.newnownext.com

I guess I like to have fun.

Madonna Ciccone
Fun, Having Fun

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

Madonna Ciccone
Sexy, Intelligent, Sexism
"Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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.

Madonna Ciccone
Goes On, Failing, Periods
Source: gawker.com

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

Madonna Ciccone
Kings, Party, Molotov Cocktail
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit.

Madonna Ciccone
Children, Juggling

For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it.

Madonna Ciccone
Breathing, Imagine, Creation
Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

Madonna Ciccone
Pain, Punishment, Catholic

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