Madonna Ciccone

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Madonna Ciccone

Born: August 16, 1958 American pop musician

"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me."

"Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac."

"You have to be patient. I'm not."

"Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn."

"Dick: my bottom hurts just thinkin' about it."
- (From her song "Now I'm Following You (Part II)")

"I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity."
- (Spoken in her documentary "Truth or Dare"; often lampooned.)

"Everybody loves you when they are about to come"

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

"My pussy has nine lives."
- (From her book "Sex".)

"I like my pussy. Sometimes I stare at it in the mirror when I'm undressing and wonder what it would look like without any hair like when I was a baby. Sometimes I sit at the edge of the bed and spred my legs. And stare into the mirror and wonder what others see. Sometimes I stick my finger in my pussy and wiggle it around the dark wetness and feel what a cock or a tongue must feel when I'm sitting on it. I pull my finger out and I always taste and smell it. It's hard to describe, it smells like a baby to me, fresh and full of life."
- (From her book "Sex".)

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

"I was publicly flogged."
- (RE: the "Sex" book phase of her career)

"I wanna rule the world."
- (When asked what she wanted to do, on "American Bandstand".)

"Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!"
- (Poem written for AIDS P.S.A.)

"Is that a rug?"
- (Said RE: David Letterman's toupee' in infamous television interview.)

"So what?"
- (In response to nude photos published early in career.)

"I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man."

"You can use the cage
I've got a lot of rope
No, I'm not full of rage
I'm full of hope
This is not a crime
and you're not on trial
Bend over baby
I'm gonna make you smile"
- (From her song "Erotic") (not the same as her song entitled "Erotica")

"A falcon."
- (When asked by a fan what kind of animal she would be; she then performed the song "Hollywood" which contains the line "This bird has flown," and quipped mid-lyric "Told you I was a falcon!")

"I have to give it up to Snoop Dogg, but move over rover."

"People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away."

"I want to go back to L.A., London is a shithole."

"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."

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."

"Strong women leave big hickies."

"Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done."

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

"Never forget to dream."

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

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

"It only took me 40 years to get it right."
- (Talking about Guy Ritchie)

"I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt."

"Condoms saved my life."

"If you have to ask for something more than once or twice it wasn't yours in the first place."

"If you don't like my attitude, then you can fuck off, just go to Texas and suck George Bush's dick!"
- (Singing 'I Love New York' at Coachella Festival 2006)

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About

"I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular." ~ Mariah Carey

"I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife [Madonna]. That's even why I married her." Guy Ritchie

The prettiest girl in the mirror is me
but will I still be pretty when there's no one there to see?...
me?
I wish upon a lucky star to put a happy face on my pain
Because it hurts so much to be so cold, and so alone
in the rain.
- (Spoof poem from comedienne Julie Brown's Madonna parody mockumentary "Medusa: Dare to be Truthful")

"She sent me a half-drunken bottle of wine with Madonna spit in it." ~ Julie Brown
- Regarding Madonna's reception of Julie's mockumentary about her.

"I'd like to fix her a big plate of spaghetti." ~ Tori Amos

"The one thing we need to understand is that if you're going to French kiss another woman, it doesn't mean you're going to be an ingenue at 40. If you're 20, it doesn't mean you're going to get wisdom. You're going to get some cute lipgloss on and a yummy feeling inside, but there's a bit of a devouring going on. When someone French kisses another woman to try and get something, that isn't passion; it's very interesting to me, an intriguing study. If you're going to French kiss somebody, French kiss a woman that can say, 'Okay, honey; okay sister, come with me and I'll show you a tongue like you've never seen before'. If you're going to walk down that road, do it! A tongue does not touch the intelligence inside another person. you know, Madonna's stayed around for 20 years, but Britney is not going to get that, and Madonna isn't going to become 20 years younger. I did not see 'I honour you' in that kiss. But that's me; that's what I saw." ~ Tori Amos
- Regarding Madonna's kiss with Britney Spears

"The following song was not made famous by me, though the woman who made it famous was also a blonde, and we both have religious names." ~ Bernadette Peters
- Said before performing Madonna's "Sooner or Later".

"No one knows how to work this business like she does." Cher

"Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Go's on water skis." Liz Phair

"I just want to say how much I enjoyed Madonna's performance. She is an absolute professional and she makes us all look like amateurs" Robbie Williams

"I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her." Britney Spears

"I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song and I peed myself." Britney Spears

"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself." Shakira

"I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me." Alicia Silverstone

"I think she's really great. I respect and admire her and think she's really talented." Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles

"Kabbalah argues for the spiritual supremacy of women over men, for feminine transcendence over masculine imminence, and feminine radiance over masculine expedience. Yet Madonna has spent her career dishonoring women, portraying them as chunks of meat bereft of personalities or even souls. She set back the cause of female recording artists by a generation by showing, a full 50 years after the feminist revolution, that a woman cannot sell a record unless she takes off her bra." Shmuley Boteach[1]

"Far from aggrandizing Kabbalah, Madonna's practice of it sends the message that one can be mystical without being spiritual, and one can claim to be holy while having lost all dignity." Ibid.

"This [commercial use of Isaac Luria's name] is an inappropriate act, and one can feel only pity at the punishment that she will receive from Heaven." Rabbi Raphael Cohen.[2]