Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

Madonna: Self

Quotes 

• Madonna : I hate people who hate women. Actually I hate people who hate!

• Madonna : [makes gagging noises]  "Neat"? Anybody who says my show is "neat" has to go.

• Madonna : [after learning Toronto police will arrest her if she simulates masturbation on-stage]  Last time I was on tour, Sean was in jail. I guess it's my turn.

• Donna DeLory : Madonna, truth or dare?

  Madonna : Truth.

  Donna DeLory : Who has been the love of your life, in your whole life?

  Madonna : My whole life? Sean. Sean.

• Kevin Costner : Thanks for having us. It was really generous.

  Madonna : Thanks for coming.

  Kevin Costner : We thought it was "neat".

  Madonna : "Neat"?

  Kevin Costner : Really neat.

  Madonna : No one's ever described it as that.

  Kevin Costner : Have fun. We won't be making that other deal.

  Madonna : Not neat enough for you?

• Madonna : [praying with her dancers before a concert]  We're dedicating tonight's performance to Keith Haring, who doesn't have the luxury of being alive like we do.

• [Complaining after her microphones dysfunction on stage] 

  Madonna : Somebody sent some big fat man up in the front to give me dirty looks all night.

• Madonna : So what is considered masturbation?

  Christopher Ciccone : When you stick your hand in your crotch.

• Madonna : We shouldn't have any more sex. You should build an altar for me in home and worship it daily, and you call me collect!

• Madonna : [voiceover, as Madonna visits her mother's grave]  What I remember most about her was that she was - she was very kind and very gentle and very feminine. I don't know, I guess she seemed like an angel to me, but I suppose everybody thinks their mother's an angel when they're five. I also know she was really religious, so I never really understood why she was taken away from us. It seemed so unfair. I never thought that she had done something wrong, so oftentimes I wondered what I had done wrong.

• [Madonna shows a television remote control to director Alec Keshishian, who is off-camera] 

  [last lines] 

  Madonna : I'm going to press this thing. I'm going to press power. When I press it, the camera's going to go off instantly.

  [presses power] 

  Madonna : Go away! Cut it! Cut it, Alec! Cut it, goddamn it!

• Madonna : Do we wanna be accepted by Hollywood?

  Dancers : No!

  Madonna : Do we care what people think about us?

  Dancers : No!

  Madonna : Do we want people to kiss our ass?

  Dancers : Yes!

  Madonna : Okay now, do we want an "R" rating or an "X" rating?

  Dancers : "X"!

  Madonna : "X" for extra fun!

• Madonna : [makeup artist is trying to apply makeup to Madonna's lips during a tirade]  Do something else! Do my eyebrows!

• Madonna : I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

• Madonna : I know I'm not the best singer and I know I'm not the best dancer, but I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in pushing people's buttons, in being provocative and in being political.

• Madonna : [about her fans]  Even when I feel like shit, they still love me!

• Madonna : It's pretty racy. I don't know if you could take it two nights.

  Silvio Ciccone : Oh, you had to get racy on me, huh?

  Madonna : Dad, I'm not getting racy. I've been racy.

  Silvio Ciccone : Well, can't you tone it down a bit?

  Madonna : For you? No, because that would be compromising my artistic integrity.

  Silvio Ciccone : Of course.

  [pause] 

  Silvio Ciccone : Do you undress in this performance?

  Madonna : No! Of course I don't.

• Madonna : [after one of her dancers exposes himself to her]  It's BLUE!