Top 122 Tattoo Quotes

Jesse James’s next tattoo should be a warning label: Danger. Loving this man could break you.

I have a freaking tattoo of Bulgaria on my shoulder. I’m proud of it.

The tattoo on my wrist has the letters ‘ES,’ which stands for ‘elephant shoe.’ It’s something I used to say when I was younger instead of ‘I love you’ and it reminds me to remain childlike at times and to not take myself too seriously.

I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.

I’ve thought about it, but I don’t think I’d ever get a ‘Teen Wolf’ tattoo, and I don’t know why.

My second tattoo was a pirate ship on my arm. My friends and I, you know, we all called ourselves pirates, you know, so we felt like, you know,we was the pirates of the Caribbean around the way.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

The thing with ‘The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo’ is that is it’s like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I’m not getting anymore; otherwise I’ll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I’ve always been the type of person – you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I’m not like, ‘Oh, let me get one tattoo.’ It’s, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

I felt perhaps ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world – it was still running in the theatres – and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, ‘Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.’

My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with ‘Barb Wire.’

I think ‘Tattoo’s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it’s about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you – be they a friend, a family member or someone you’re in a relationship with.

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It’s my first tattoo.

My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, ‘Dream your life, live your dreams.’

Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you’re limiting your social sphere, because they’re not popular in big business.

I’m conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that’s a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, ‘I hope you don’t regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.’

I don’t like the showy nationalism – a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag – that doesn’t matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing ‘John Tucker Must Die,’ and I have a tattoo on my ankle that’s in Sanskrit that says ‘Fearless.’

Although I didn’t spend much time in New Zealand at all, I feel really privileged to have that Maori blood and link to my past. I got my tattoo out of respect to that.

I collect Wonder Woman – from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back.

I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says ‘The Road Not Taken,’ which is a poem by Robert Frost.

If you’re over 22, getting a tattoo and you don’t do work that involves tools you should be ashamed of yourself!

I actually have a tattoo on the left side of my chest that says ‘Blessed.’ It represents how blessed I’ve been in my life and how thankful I am for all that I have.

I had a tattoo of Jaden Smith. A very accurate portrait of a 15-year-old Jaden Smith.

I’d say to all kids, don’t have a tattoo until you’re 21.

My only advice is don’t tattoo some guy’s name on yourself. Ever. I’ve done it twice. Twice! I’m in the process of getting both removed. It’s the most painful thing imaginable.

Dad and I had a deal from when I was about 10 that if I ever did play Test cricket we’d both get a tattoo of my number, so we’ll see if we actually go through with that or not.

I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.

Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he’s had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.

The gummy bears tattoo was my idea. It’s my son’s favorite candy. The sketch was my other son’s idea. It’s a self-portrait of himself. I just showed the artist his sketch and had him tattoo it on my forearm. It looks like a stick person with big hair. It’s pretty funny.

Unlike a celebrity, there’s nothing I won’t try and nothing I won’t talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, ‘Change thy hair, change thyself.’

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.

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.

That’s the beauty about beauty; it’s not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

You have to think hard with a tattoo. ‘What will I love for the rest of my life?’

I wouldn’t care if they tattoo Festus all over. He’s been good to me.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that’s kind of weird for me.

One of my sons has a tattoo on his ankle that was meant to be Africa but looks like Australia, one of my sons mumbles, and one of my sons is a gay man. I’ll be honest, there’s been loads of nights when me and my wife have sat up and worried and worried and worried, ‘What are we going to do if he doesn’t stop mumbling?’

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I’m older of something about her.

I have a Superman tattoo on my right arm.

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.

I got a random tattoo the other day. It’s a red triangle, which makes everyone think I’m arty, which I’m not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something – maybe I don’t know it yet. But I’ll figure it out.

I look at other people’s tats for probably the idea, or like, where to put it or something. But, at the end of the day, all my tats gotta mean something back to me. The moment you get something that don’t mean something to you, you’re gonna regret that tattoo.

I’m a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

I got Elliott Smith’s photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book’s logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

Well, I’ve always wanted to get a tattoo done, I just never got around to doing it!

I got a tattoo saying ‘Made in England’ above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.

My friend… used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about – he said it looked like a flying monkey. It’s supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.