I don’t need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn’t my style, because that’s the only way I can grow up and grow out.
BETTE MIDLERThe only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
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I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening… that’s the art.
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I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.
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Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
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The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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You can’t just have a clean public space – you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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I’m the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.
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I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.
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I have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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Just because people don’t meet you doesn’t mean they’re not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.
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I’m working my way toward divinity.
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