Thomas Brodie-Sangster Quotes

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I like building.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I enjoy building more than managing.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I'm an inventor.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

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

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.