James Badge Dale Quotes

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.