Kat Von D Quotes

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

I really am at peace with not being a mom.

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

My dad told me when I was very young, that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.

I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

I love that people have bucket lists. I've had one ever since I was young and watched 'Wild On' at night in my bedroom.

'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

Everyone has a life. I haven't had a particularly interesting one.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.