Words matter. These are the best Electrician Quotes from famous people such as John Gordon Sinclair, David Jason, Mike Rowe, Jodie Foster, Steph Houghton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you’d told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I’d have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.
After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn’t. I didn’t get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn’t come easy.
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I’m a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I’m good at is making eyes at the camera.
Mum stayed home to look after us, and Dad was an electrician, working long hours to support us. We never went without, but we did have to be careful.
It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.
I definitely don’t see myself as an actor. I don’t even have it on my passport. I’ve got ‘writer and electrician’ on my passport. I don’t want anyone to think I’m an actor.
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
Fortunately, I’ve also been an electrician, and that’s a happy memory for me.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs.
I’m technically the utility guy on the field. Whether you need a plumber or an electrician, man, I’m here for you.
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician… tailor.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
I probably learned, being in ‘Taxi Driver’ before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It’s like a graduate course: it’s terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician – that’s hard.
My mother’s dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction – I was bored! And only when I started did I think, ‘Sheesh, what have I gotten into?’ I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
