Jamie Oliver Quotes

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It's a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

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.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

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

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

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

The making of a cabinet … is by no means as easy as I had supposed.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.