In the States, I get recognised all the time. I met a fan once who had a tattoo of my face on his arm. I can see how some people get carried away with it, but I don’t have trouble staying grounded.
I’ve got ‘trust’ tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that’s for my parents.
One of the beauties of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.
The Olympic Rings tattoo has played its part and will continue to motivate me.
It’s 2010. I’m forty-three years old. I’ve just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it’s a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I’m finally coming into my own.
When I was a kid I always liked scratching myself – making shapes, making drawings, and I always thought I would have a tattoo.
It’s my ex’s name. Don’t tattoo names on your body, kids.
Tatttoo concealers can cover almost every tattoo on your body if you do it right.
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I’ve not followed on that through yet… I’ve always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I’m very spontaneous about what I get.
Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.
People tattoo for different reasons. I use a tattoo as a marker of time, to be reminded of a time in my life. It is something special and personal.
I just don’t want to get a tattoo just to have a tattoo.
I believe I can be one of the best players in the world. That’s why I have my ‘Dreamchaser’ tattoo on my chest.
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, ‘Would you be proud to die this way?’ And that’s my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?
I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They’re dancer feet. They’re pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they’re strong – I can pinch people with my toes.
I’ve been through so much pain in life, what’s a tattoo?
My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.
Given a choice I want to do a yin and yang tattoo on the middle of my chest and right next to my heart.
I’ve seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I’m not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I’m not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.
I’m a tattoo artist, and I went to school to paint, and I started writing and getting published.
With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,’ Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
On ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ I spent two or three months learning how to ride a motorcycle. I wasn’t really riding the motorcycle in 98 percent of the movie, but the shots of me getting on and off had to look like I had been doing it for years and years.
A great epiphany: I found out that I’m totally confused and I’m good with that. I’m consistently inconsistent. I’m all of the above. I’m OK. I’m a work in progress. That’s my next tattoo somewhere.
I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.
I signed a baby’s head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tattoo one time, and he wanted me to sign the tattoo. So I signed the tattoo, and he went across the street and had the signature tattooed.
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.
Some kids like books, some kids like movies, but for me, every year I still go back and play ‘Legend of Zelda.’ So to me, when I got up to the big time, I thought that Zelda was my thing. CM Punk has a Pepsi tattoo, so why can’t I have the Triforce? Gaming is huge to me; it’s all I do.
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
I designed a tattoo for a girl once, and she got it, which I thought was pretty cool. We no longer speak. She’ll always remember me, though – I can guarantee that.
It’s hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn’t having to roll around and train all the time.
Fred Durst gave my first wife a tattoo of a star on the bottom of her foot when she was 14 years old in his trailer home. So that was my first introduction to Limp Bizkit.
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.
Everybody in the family decided to get a tattoo each as a sign of togetherness and pestered me to get one. You have to be with the times, and I’m glad my tattoo isn’t scary or anything.
I’m going to do a sequel to ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ and this one is called ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’, which is an American production. It’s a clean slate: new cast, new director and everything and they’re skipping from book one to book four.
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, ‘The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.’
You ever notice how when you get a new tattoo, it’s like a magnet? People are drawn to it, everybody wants to touch it?
The Misfits skull was my second tattoo, and the Danzig was my third.
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I totally get it.’ So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it’s the word ‘hope’ on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
‘Love Tattoo’ I recorded without a record company. I’d gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn’t get me, which is fine, I suppose.
A tattoo doesn’t make you look like an individual.
I don’t walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says ‘cowboy’ that’s a bit of an over-compensation, probably.
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.
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.
I can’t think of many places I’d rather spend Saturday afternoon than in a tattoo parlor.
I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me.
A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they’ll show up at another show and they’ll have their tattoo.
Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.
I don’t sit under the tattoo gun unless I’m sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
But, yeah, I definitely want to get a Cardinals tattoo.
I got my first tattoo when I was 14-years-old. Unfortunately I didn’t need a signature, which I probably shouldn’t of got done, because, you know, it was one of my friends who was a tattoo artist.
I got a tattoo saying, ‘Freedom From Fear’ because of ‘Black Water Transit.’
I’ll tell you this: Tommy Morrison has a tattoo of Elvis Presley on his butt, he likes to hunt and fish, and his favorite movie is ‘GoodFellas.’
That’s what I think stand out about me, because of this tattoo on my face.
The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.
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