Tamara Feldman Quotes

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

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

I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

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 love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

I want a manly man who's not afraid to get down and dirty.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.