Lee Marvin Quotes

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

I enjoy building more than managing.

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

I am a plumber. Just a plumber.

When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

In five days I will begin to dig.

I love being hands-on.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

Give me a user manual, and I'm happy for hours.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.