Oliver Reed Quotes

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

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

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

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.

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

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.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

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

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

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

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

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.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

I like building.

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

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

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

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.

The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.