Popular Quotes Through Time

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.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.

Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do.

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

I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.

Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion.

The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

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

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.