Tattoo famous quotes
05-15-2025
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
-- A. J. McLean -
I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend.
-- Adrienne Bailon -
When one door closes, another one opens.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.
-- Allen Iverson -
Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
-- Alyssa Milano -
I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.
-- Amanda Holden -
I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.
-- Andy Samberg -
I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!
-- Angelina Jolie -
From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
-- Anna Sui -
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
-- Anthony Daniels -
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
-- Antoni Tapies -
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.
-- Ashley Greene -
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
-- Ashley Scott -
My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.
-- Ashley Scott -
The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
-- Bernard Malamud -
Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.
-- Bill Hicks -
I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
-- Billy Bragg -
I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world,
-- Blake Shelton -
You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.
-- Bobby Flay -
On the face of her phone Wileen programs a message to herself so that when the alarm clock rings the screen flashes: EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS. EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS. For some people happiness it's just a reduction in suffering. Jordan. Jordan tattoos the words FORGIVE ME in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
-- Calvin Trillin -
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
-- Carlos Santana -
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
-- Carly Chaikin -
The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.
-- Casper Van Dien -
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
-- Cassia Leo -
Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.
-- Charles Darwin -
Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.
-- Charles de Lint -
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
-- Charles Kettering -
For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
-- Cher -
I know people say 'what about when you're old and you're covered in tattoos?' - so what. Anyway, in time to come everyone will have them and it will be all the trend, won't it? 'Cuz you don't know how the times are gonna change.
-- Cher Lloyd -
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
-- Chester Bennington -
Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
-- Chester Bennington -
Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.
-- Chris Evans -
People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
-- Christian Louboutin -
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
-- Christian Louboutin -
A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.
-- Christine Caine -
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.
-- CM Punk -
People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.
-- CM Punk -
Score a touchdown, kiss your tattoo. Kaepernicking!
-- Colin Kaepernick -
I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass
-- Craig Ferguson -
In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
-- Dan Ariely -
I think if you're gonna get a tattoo, just get one: the words, 'I'm dumb.' That's it. That way in 10 years, when you go, 'Why did I get this?,' you can be like, 'Oh, I'm dumb!'
-- Daniel Tosh -
The first five years of my career, I was Inmate #1, Bad Guy #1 and Mean Guy #1. I had a great career going, until somebody told me that I was typecast. I said, "Well, what's typecast?" And they said, "Well, you're always playing the mean Chicano dude with tattoos." I thought about that and I said, "Wait a minute! I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos, so somebody is getting it right."
-- Danny Trejo -
For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.
-- Dave Attell -
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.
-- Dave Navarro -
I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.
-- Denis Leary -
A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we see ourselves determines how we live... A destructive label leads to a destructive life. There is a soul thief, a dark enemy, who wants to nail ruinous labels to your heart so that he can steal your life. Jesus wants to give you life giving labels that release your potential for the good of the world.
-- Derwin L. Gray -
Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.
-- Don Ed Hardy -
A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.
-- Don Ed Hardy -
You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedom—one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my body—alter it my way as an act of personal will.'
-- Don Ed Hardy -
One person's tattoo is nobody else's business
-- Don Ed Hardy -
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.
-- Douglas Kent Hall -
I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo.
-- Dree Hemingway -
There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
-- Ed Sheeran -
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
-- Ed Westwick -
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.
-- Edith Hall -
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.
-- Eli Roth -
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.
-- Ellen Schreiber -
I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.
-- Elmore Leonard -
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.
-- Emma Forrest -
I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.
-- Eric Bana -
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
-- Erma Bombeck -
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
-- Ethan Hawke -
Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.
-- Eva Mozes Kor -
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps
-- Frank Iero -
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
-- Franz Kafka -
I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.
-- Gayle Forman -
You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material." Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan. "You were saying?" He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.
-- Gena Showalter -
He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.
-- Gena Showalter -
Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands - Nike, Puma, Coke - all over their bodies. Pretty soon you'll go to a family and say, "$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child's forehead, and we'll have it removed when he's twenty-one. A hundred grand."
-- George Carlin -
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.
-- Goldie Hawn -
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
-- Harlan Coben -
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
-- Helen Fisher -
I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
-- Henry Rollins -
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.
-- Hugh Jackman -
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.
-- Ian Shoales -
The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
-- Idris Elba -
I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
-- J Mascis -
We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.
-- J. Lynn -
It's all too much and not enough at the same time.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
-- Jack London -
The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.
-- Jaejoong -
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
-- James Cook -
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
-- James Whistler -
Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
-- Janet Fitch -
She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!
-- Jason Aldean -
Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.
-- Jay Bakker
