Marc Singer Quotes

I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a much stronger nation.

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

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

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.

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

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

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

I remember that I wanted the Razor scooter, and my dad went to the garage, spent one or two days, and built one out of wood and painted it with the Colombian colors.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth.

I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!

When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.

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

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.