Michael Cudlitz Quotes

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.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

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

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.

I like to think I'm handy, but I failed at being handy many a time.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a builder, first and foremost.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

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

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.

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.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

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

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

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