Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

I think we all want to fit in at a young age.

I mean, I definitely relate to not being a part of the popular crowd.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I'm not trying to become popular.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.