Liam Cunningham Quotes

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.

A man has to learn to be a Representative just as he must learn to be a blacksmith, a carpenter, a farmer, an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

People of Baltimore, if you want to simply learn a new trade, if you want to join the Foundry, it's a membership. It's like joining a gym, and you can go and meet other entrepreneurs like you. You can talk about how to get financing. You can take a class on how to sew. You can take a class and say, 'I want to be an electrician.'

When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.

One thing my fans might not know about me is that when I graduated from college I went to work for a plumbing company, and so I was pretty much a full time plumber.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

Knowledge-based apprenticeships kickstart careers. Just look at British fashion designer Karen Millen, for example, who learned her craft through an apprenticeship scheme.

I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.