Travis Fimmel Quotes

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

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

I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

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.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

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

They who are deft with their hands and skilled in their work are indispensable in a city; wherever they dwell, they hunger not.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.