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Ricky Martin Quotes

Enjoy the top 72 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Ricky Martin.

“If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.”
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“You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'”

— Ricky Martin

“I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.”

— Ricky Martin

“The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.”

— Ricky Martin

“Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.”

— Ricky Martin

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

— Ricky Martin

“I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.”

— Ricky Martin

“For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'”

— Ricky Martin

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

— Ricky Martin

“Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.”

— Ricky Martin

“The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!”

— Ricky Martin

“I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.”

— Ricky Martin

“One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.”

— Ricky Martin

“I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.”

— Ricky Martin

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

— Ricky Martin

“Ignore the ignorant.”

— Ricky Martin

“During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.”

— Ricky Martin

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it's fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

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“Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.”

— Ricky Martin

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

— Ricky Martin

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

— Ricky Martin

“I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.”

— Ricky Martin

“I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”

— Ricky Martin

“When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.”

— Ricky Martin

“It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.”

— Ricky Martin

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

— Ricky Martin

“I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.”

— Ricky Martin

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

— Ricky Martin

“Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.”

— Ricky Martin

“Children aren't just our future. They're our present.”

— Ricky Martin

“Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.”

— Ricky Martin

“People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.”

— Ricky Martin

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

— Ricky Martin

“Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.”

— Ricky Martin

“I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.”

— Ricky Martin

“New York City is an amazing place to raise children.”

— Ricky Martin

“If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.”

— Ricky Martin

“I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.”

— Ricky Martin

“I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.”

— Ricky Martin

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

— Ricky Martin

I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

— Ricky Martin

“Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is”

— Ricky Martin

“Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.”

— Ricky Martin

“What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.”

— Ricky Martin

“I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.”

— Ricky Martin

“Getting caught masturbating sucks. I got caught masturbating in jail 7 or 8 times, it really sucks.”

— Ricky Martin

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.