Top 133 Tattoos Quotes

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

I have lots of tattoos and am biracial.

I don’t like people who smoke and have tattoos.

A lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That’s the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don’t know the game.

I’m sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.

I dont have any tattoos, but I wish I did. I have never had the guts. I would like a full sleeve, but trends change so you never know what is going to stay cool.

My tattoos… I’d be in the Army right now if I hadn’t got ’em.

I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don’t think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that’s leading the team or representing the organization.

It’s quite amazing how tattoos in general have been more and more accepted.

I’m always like Mickey Mouse with tattoos.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

I get recognized more for my tattoos than my face.

I have five tattoos.

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

I know some people who’ve gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn’t have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

Tattoos aren’t fun unless you’re an idiot. It’s not fun to get tattoos.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

I think swag is very important to rappers. It’s the overall appearance and style of an artist – these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that’s swag.

I have over seventy tattoos.

I’ve never really understood tattoos. I mean, it’s your body – why would you wanna scar it? I don’t mind other people’s tattoos, but I just never got it.

Get whatever tattoos you want, just make sure they mean something at least.

There are a lot of people that might not like tattoos; I respect it. For me, it’s my passion, so the same way I respect their view, I’d like everyone to respect my passion for tattoos.

Nowadays, people get tattoos so easily, to look cool and only for fashion.

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.

There was this really rock n’ roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face.

I would always change my Barbies. I’d cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed – but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

My scars from abuse made me insecure. And so I had to cover up my scars with tattoos.

I like to do meaningful tattoos and it’s for myself and not the world. My tattoos are private.

All my tattoos, they’ve been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I’ve got them. So I’m not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It’s something that means something to me. It’s something that I believe in.

I’ll never get my chest tatted up, and I’m not big on tattoos on the legs. I’m running out of space on my body; I’d like to get more but I haven’t figured out where I’ll put them or what I want to get.

I’m not the flashy guy with the neck tattoos trash talking your head off.

I have no tattoos. There’s nothing I’ve even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

It’s such an interesting experience seeing how different people react to music and the generosity of some and the craziness of others – people who go see bands in different countries, know all the words to the songs, and get tattoos. It’s so unexpected.

If you like how people look when they’re all covered in tattoos, then you should be covered in tattoos.

Tattoos are traditionally super masculine, but I just like it. I like the art.

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It’s a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early ‘X Factor’ rounds.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

I’ve only been to jail once, and I didn’t get my tattoos there.

I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.

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.

People in the street will either call me ‘Prime Minister’ or ‘Justin.’ We’ll see how that goes. But when I’m working, when I’m with my staff in public, I’m ‘Prime Minister.’ I say that if we’re drinking beer out of a bottle, and you can see my tattoos, you should be comfortable calling me ‘Justin.’

Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it.

There’s a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That’s probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.

I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common – first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, ‘Oh, he must be very religious’. I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don’t know. It’s just a mural… a collage.

When you see a chick that’s not the skinniest girl in the room, covered in tattoos, you go, ‘That girl wants to stick it to the man.’ But we don’t give a damn about the man. At all. We just want to make music.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

If you are AC/DC, you don’t get credit for slow songs. And if you are doing a show about food with a blond dude with crazy blond hair and tattoos who drives a hot rod, of course everyone is going to think everything you eat is deep-fried.

The tattoos on my legs started because they didn’t let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.

I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.

Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there’s this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.

Know that the tattoos are all significant. They’re all extremely insignificant. I can’t break each one down, but it’s 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common – first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.