Stuart Broad Quotes

I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

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.

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it's at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

I never thought I was academically gifted at school. But when I started flying, I found you didn't need an academic mind - you just needed determination and dedication.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.