Benedict Samuel Quotes

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.