Scott Eastwood Quotes

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

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

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

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.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

I like building.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

I am a maker of useful things.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

I enjoy building more than managing.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

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!'

When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

I think when we build something we love and that others love, then we have done our job.