Top 144 Tomboy Quotes

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

I have three styles. One is my Hypebeast tomboy look, which is pretty much my everyday look.

Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.

I like a woman that’s capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

I was a tomboy.

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.

I’m a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice-hockey player.

I’m a tomboy, and my style is punk.

I grew up with three older brothers, so I’m very much a tomboy in real life.

I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy.

I was very much a tomboy. I’ve always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I’m pretty much that way to this day.

I’ve played sports, and I’ve been a tomboy my whole life.

On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I’m strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I’m obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 – all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.

I was studying sociology in college and I was a big soccer player. That’s something not a lot of people know about me. I’m a girly girl, but I’m also a secret tomboy.

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

I was a complete tomboy. You’d never see me wearing skirts.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.

I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I’m a dancer.

I am a redhead and was a tomboy for many years.

I got a letter from a mom, and she was telling me about how her daughter is a tomboy and the trouble she has in classes and being around boys. She herself had the same kinds of problems growing up and how inspired they were by me. That was such an incredible email to receive.

I was very much of a tomboy.

Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. So many people come up to me, and they’re like, ‘Did you know you’re a tomboy? You should try wearing dresses.’

I was the most tomboy kid ever wearing chappals and pyjama and running around.

I was such a tomboy – goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy – and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn’t!

I’m such a tomboy.

At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

I’m a tomboy naturally; I grew up hanging up with boys.

I played a tomboy character in ‘Dohchay.’

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys’ toys; I don’t remember owning any dolls.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I’ve wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

I’m the biggest nerd – I love comic books and stuff like that! I don’t have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

I’m a tomboy, but I really love doing my makeup – I find it relaxing and grounding. With ‘The Daily Show,’ it was easier for me to do my own makeup. In the beginning, I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials. You find a beauty blogger who has your skin tone, and pretty much everything they use will look good on you.

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very ‘tomboy’ at the time, I wasn’t interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, ‘OK, maybe I will be a model.’

I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother’s footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn’t many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.

I’ve always had a man’s mindset, and that’s why I mostly have men friends, and that’s why I’ve been around so many men. I’ve always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I’m not a girly girl.

I’m not the sexy girl. I’m more youthful and innocent, the girl who wears jeans and T-shirts and sneakers. But fans have accepted that I’m a tomboy. There’s a different group of people who find that attractive.

Growing up, I was definitely a tomboy, an overall-and-Converse type of girl, and I still am, but for events, I love dressing up.

My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side.

I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I’m grateful to my parents for that.

I was a big tomboy.

I’m a bit of a tomboy.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.

I’ve always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

I was a wild child tomboy.

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic.

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I’d jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

Most people say that Asian or female artists should be sexy in America, but I don’t think that I have to be like that. I have a tomboy style. My choreography is not that way. So, I want to focus on my music style to match the choreography, which is really cool. No girls can dance those moves. I try to make them really fresh.

I’d say I was a tomboy… I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.

I’ve always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don’t run away from. At the same time I’m a real girlie-girl.

I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports – basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros!

I was not a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

I’m very tomboy, and I’m inspired by hip hop artists.

Cara’s always been a real tomboy. She was never really that into makeup. She’s very quick at it.

From an early age, I was very interested in all things fashion… and the change from tomboy to ultrafeminine glamour in old films. There was a Doris Day film I loved: ‘Calamity Jane.’

I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

At heart I am a tomboy.

I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can’t believe that I’m an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.

I’m a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I’m an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly – beating up boys, actually.

I do feel like I’m a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

I’m more of a tomboy – I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure – but I have a girlie side to me.

People think I’m trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It’s really that I’m a tomboy at heart.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn’t do the pink ballet tutus.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

I’m a bit of a tomboy, but then a girly girl. And I feel like you can be both.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

‘Red Dawn’ was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

For so long, we were labeled – you’re a girly girl, you’re a tomboy, you’re this or that – but now we can do what we want. One style doesn’t define me.

I dress like a tomboy.

I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn’t join the Little League team.

Because I’m such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I’m used to being around guys.

Noel Black, who directed ‘Pretty Poison,’ got me to play a film-making student in ‘Cover Me Babe.’ At least it wasn’t another tomboy.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I was kind of a tomboy.

My style kind of differs – sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don’t ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.

I’m a girl, and I like girly things even though I’m a tomboy also, you know?

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren’t very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

I’ve been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

I was a huge ‘Deadwood’ fan because I’m a huge David Milch fan, so I’ve always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on ‘Deadwood’ and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

For the most part, I’m very into sweatpants and cute tops from streetwear brands like Supreme and Palace for a ’90s tomboy vibe.

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn’t know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn’t know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

I’ve always had a tomboy look.

I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I’m a total girlie-girl.

As a kid, I was not a tomboy; I was a total girl wearing tutus and red shoes.

I grew up as a tomboy. I hated posing and things like that.

I’m definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I’m a tomboy. I love shooting guns and running around.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

I’m a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother’s group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I’m a woman’s woman. I never understood women who don’t have woman friends.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I’ve always been a tomboy.

It’s just that I’ve always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.

I’m a bit of a tomboy.

I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy… because you are so close to your dad.

I was a tomboy. I wasn’t like the other girly girls.

I was thin and didn’t realize how small I was – I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don’t want to be 96 pounds. It’s not attractive. I didn’t know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.

I was a tomboy and didn’t pay too much attention to my clothes.

I’ve learned what looks too sexy or too tomboy or too cool for me! I know what suits me now.

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn’t afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it’s cool if she’s a tomboy.

I’m not just edgy, and I’m not just into a tomboy look, and I’m not just girly. I do what I want, and if I like something, I’ll wear it.

I’m very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That’s my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that’s in real womanlike situations, where it’s romanticized, I’m a little nervous about it.

‘Gaana Bajana’ gave me an opportunity to experiment with my looks. I played a tomboy in that film, a role that I hadn’t essayed before. I have no regrets for having done the film.

I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought I could be a model. I was such a tomboy growing up, and I’ve never really been into makeup or anything like that, so it was really surprising, but I definitely saw it as an in for acting.

Believe it or not, I am a tomboy.

I have an older brother and younger sister and for the first few years I was quite a tomboy. We lived in a small village in Hampshire and my brother and I would climb trees and make dens.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

I’m a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don’t know why – self-expression, I guess.

For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.

I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught a picture of myself, and I was like, ‘God! What was I thinking about?’

When I was growing up, I was running around; I was a little tomboy. So I was just running around trying to be an athlete and trying to reenact things from TV, but I wasn’t really into reading comic books or anything like that.

I can be a tomboy or an absolute lady – I gave myself the title ‘The Best of Both Girls.’

I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.

I’m a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

Growing up, I was a bit of a tomboy; feminine things took a while to find their place in my world. But diamonds made me understand the magic and beauty of jewelry.

I’m a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I’m more like the anti-sexy icon.

I was definitely a tomboy. I hated dolls.

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That’s probably why I liked the athletic part of skating – especially the jumping!

I’m a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I’d hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that’s the case with most people though!

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.

In my day-to-day life, I’m kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I’ve always felt athletic and strong.

No, I’m not! I’m not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That’s not true! I’m not a tomboy!

I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

When I go to the spa, I’m a girly girl. I’m pampering myself. But on a regular basis, I’m a very tough tomboy – I have to remind myself that I’m still a woman!

It sounds cliche, but I’m mostly androgynous in what I wear. I’ll wear a lot of tomboy clothes but still dress glam if I have a red carpet event. It’s a bit of a mix, but mostly androgynous.

I was the ultimate tomboy because my oldest brother used to always beat up on me and wrestle and make sure I was engaged in sports, because I was his excuse to be able to go hang out with his friends.

I guess I’m a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.