Bruno Tonioli Quotes

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

We've worked on hundreds of cars and there's always something different so it's hard to get bored of individual vehicles.

My dad is a mechanic from Sheffield and my grandmother lives in Rotherham, bless her.

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.

My father was a manual worker.

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.