Amy Sedaris Quotes

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

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.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

I just like to build things and do things.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

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 draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider - anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It's a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.

I feel like I'm a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!

I love arts and crafts.

I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

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!'

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I'm not making something.

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.