Tattoo Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Mean, Years, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.

  Mike Huckabee

  Hair, Amy, Goes On

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• 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

  Drawing, Skins, Materials

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

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• My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  New York, Years, Wings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

  John Mason Brown

  People, Criticism, Soap Bubbles

  John Mason Brown (1940). “Broadway in review”

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• I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

  Skylar Grey

  Children, Whales, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

  Kidada Jones

  Swag, Adidas, Tinkerbell

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• I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.

  Ryan Adams

  Badass, Mean, Next Day

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Girl, Character, Dragons

  "Esquire's Nominating Academy Presents: Stellan Skarsgård". www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I'm a big fan of zombies, and I have a zombie tattoo on my leg.

  Tyler Posey

  Zombie, Fans, Legs

  "Tyler Posey Talks Teen Wolf Season 3, New Characters, the Development of His Character, and More at Wondercon". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. April 01, 2013.

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• Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

  Tom Petty

  Education, School, Hollywood

  Song: Into the Great Wide Open

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• There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.

  Lena Headey

  Artist, Thinking, Done

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• 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

  Thinking, Ensemble, Sticks

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• 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.

  Soulja Boy

  Artist, Thinking, Rapper

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

  Sean William Scott

  Makeup, Actors, Idiot

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• 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

  Artist, Mind, Tears

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Strong, Real, Distance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

  William Webb

  Art, Everyday, Trying

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• Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sexy, Kissing, Teenage Love

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• I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

  Mike Ness

  Acceptance, People, Missing

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• Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.

  William Webb

  Art, Historical, Safe

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• Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  William Webb

  Art, Illustration, Years

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• If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!

  Michael Nutter

  Crazy, Shoes, Hair

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.115, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Don't be dumb. (don't get a tattoo)

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Dumb

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• Look at me... look at me... I need the attention, oooh I'm punk rock I got some tattoos, I got some piercings. If I'm gonna get some piercings then I want everyone to see it...I don't need to advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show off...Its like a Karate man... the Karate man bleed on the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside.

  Mark Hoppus

  Real, Men, Rocks

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