My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

We searched for a primary source in which Johnny Depp is documented saying or writing "My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story," and came up empty — no interview transcript, memoir, speech, letter, or archival record carries this exact line, despite Depp's well-known and frequently discussed enthusiasm for tattoos as personal markers. The phrase turns up mainly on tattoo-themed pages and quote roundups, and the book appearances we found (including Maci Bookout's *I Wasn't Born Bulletproof* and Meg Baillie's *The Little Book of Skincare, Self-care and Soul Care*) simply repeat the Depp attribution without citing any underlying interview or publication, while others reproduce it as a free-floating aphorism with no author at all. That pattern — a polished epigram passed along without a traceable origin — suggests a quote that has attached itself to Depp because it fits his image, rather than one captured from him. Crucially, we found no competing origin either: no earlier author, no different celebrity, and no documented instance of anyone saying it first, so there is nothing that would justify calling it misattributed. Under our policy, a missing primary source combined with wide, uncontested credit to one person is the definition of "common but unsupported," not a genuine authorship dispute. We are marking this quotation as attributed.