Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
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I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
