From Angelina Jolie: "I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!"

From Anna Nicole Smith: "I got my first tattoo, a Playboy Bunny, because I was young, dumb and drunk!"

"White folks are not going to come see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid!" Charles Barkley

"Sometimes I bust out and do things permanentlike tattoos and marriage" Drew Barrymore

Cher: "For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin"

From Nicolas Cage: About his tattoo "it's kind a show biz lizard. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my sole."

"I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate." Halle Berry

From Dave Navarro: "My skin is my canvas. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. I never wish to shut the door on my past so I carry it all with me."

Megan Fox: "Every time I get a tattoo, it's a little fuck-you to anyone who tells my not to."

Jack London (1883): "Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past."