Theodore White Quotes

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

My father was a manual worker.

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.